Fab Festival

The Fab Festival will be held at Disseny Hub Barcelona (DHUB) and will be open to the public during the weekend of the 5th and 6th of July. It will gather members of the International Fab Lab Community, together with the innovative local community and the general public. Members of local groups will hold creative workshops, conferences and events for all ages.

he project is a practical and effective solution for providing sustained access to safe water. The system use biosand filters, chlorination and safe storage which are identified as the most effective according to our research and having the greatest potential to become widely used in developing countries. The goal of our system is to empower people without access to clean water to improve
water quality by treating it and storing it in the home.

The key features of our system are as follows:
- Produce sufficient quantities of clean water to meet daily needs
- Effective for treating different water sources and quality levels
- Low cost, accessible and affordable replacement DIY units and DIY parts

The design collaborative Susana Karrasch (soyous.org) and Claudia Dressler (morgen architects)
realized a Project in Berlin that show perfectly the workflow from digital design,
through prototyping to the real implementation in urban space in 1:1 scale.

We are talking about a Sculpture, a canopy with the functionality of an extraordinary entrance situation
for the refurnished modernist building created by the Dadaist Artist and Architect August Endell in 1913.
The Sculpture is a complex geometry that seeks to combine the Modernist idea of the last century with a contemporary interpretation
to 2013 - exactly 100 years later, applying digital techniques at all stages of design, production and parametric adaptation,
until the final setup at the Autograph Hotel am Steinplatz by Marriott.

The fundamental idea of the final shape is derived from the decorative and geometric elements and design language
of the original expressionistic building. The challenge of the form finding process was to
extract the stylistic logic and combine these into a comprehensive essence through the digital design
and manufacturing process.

ETSEIB Motorsport is a team made of students from
the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de
Barcelona. The aim of the team is to design and build a
single-seater to take part in the Formula Student with
other universities of the world. Since 2007 they have
launched a car every year: 4 combustion engines (CAT01,
CAT02, CAT03 and CAT04) and 2 electric cars (CAT05e
and CAT06e).
This season ETSEIB Motorsport will participate in Formula
Student with its 7th prototype, the CAT07e, which
is the 3rd electric vehicle designed at the UPC. The
CAT07e takes to the limit the main components of its

Flone, is an open source platform than makes smartphones able to fly. One of the objectives is making accessible the airspace for hackers and makers using their already existing hardware.
In this workshop we will introduce flone and its short history. After that we’ll share how to build one from scratch: attendants will go through all steps of making a flone, from assembling and gluing the laser cutted airframe made in plywood to solder the electric skeleton or configure the Multiwii/Arduino flight control board.

In this workshop, participants will be introduced in the 3D food printer world. 3D food printers permit to print all types of real fresh foods, from savory to sweet, combining technology, food, art and design.

Hoffmann Innovation Iberica S.A. was founded in 1996
under the name Engineering & Prototyping S.A. In 2006,
the name was changed to Hofmann Innovation Ibérica
S.A. The company has become a leader in the automotive
sector, in a highly competitive and skilled industry, based
on its success in cultivating in-depth technical knowledge.
This combination of know-how and the state-of-the-art
machinery in its technology park has made Hofmann
Innovation Iberica S.A. a preeminent company in the area
of technology, which is constantly advancing in the creation
of sophisticated prototypes for the automobile industry,
based on the use of 3D printing technologies. The
perfect union of technological knowledge and the latest
generation machinery puts the company on the forefront.
The central Spanish headquarters are in Martorell, where
the company maintains a 600m2 workshops and 200m2
of office space. The staff is highly trained. The technical
personnel has been trained by the company itself as
well as by other companies in the group. Specific training
in our specialized subjects has been carried out in
specialized courses at national training centers such as
ASCAMM and at other centers abroad.
Hofmann Innovation Iberica S.A. has recently opened a
new work center in Martos, in the province of Jaen, with
a special focus on lighting for the automobile industry.
This work center is also dedicated to product development,
with the participation of a large team of designers.
The headquarters in Martorell and the Martos center
currently employ 23 highly-qualified professionals. The
founding partners in the company are Modelbau Robert
Hofmann GmbH and Werkzeugbau Siegfried Hofmann.
The German partners are from Lichtenfels and their work
focused on prototyping and fabricating injection molds.
The company is a member of the engineering technical
studies guild and most of their activity is associated with
the automobile, aviation and medical industries.

Instroniks.com is a project that tries to combine music and technology to build your own electronic instrument. While you create your instrument you will learn about electronics, electricity, programming, soldering, arduino code.

Bring your early idea for a startup of a social innovation or a new commercial business and give it a jumpstart! This is for any local maker or designer or innovator wanting to startup a new idea.

We'll explore your early stage idea, who its for and how you can get it to the next step. We'll show some tools for thinking about your business and methods to get to a clear vision and purpose. We’ll be using design methods and business prototyping to get your idea into a clearly. We’ll explore how the idea could be packaged, who might be the audience for the idea, and methods of getting the product or service to them.

You'll take your idea and turn it into a proposition to take to the next step.

Maximum 18 people, or we can talk about doing it at a larger scale depending on the kind of space available.

Aimed at FabLab participants, early stage startups and social entrepreneurs in and around Barcelona.

These workshops are designed for makers, designers and creatives who have just recently started up, or are at the point of doing so. It is one of the core Upstarter incubator workshops aimed at supporting makers and designers to become founders of their own companies. If you are ready to make the next step in doing your own thing, come and join us on these workshops. This is one of the Upstarter workshops we have been running in the US and the UK, and will have a Spanish translator working alongside the facilitator.
More about us here: http://www.upstarteincubator.comhttp://www.plotlondon.net

Even beginners will be able to create a beautiful pair of leather slippers! Use a traditional Japanese design that is now open-source-- and join a community of slipper-makers around the world!

KULUSKA slipper is developed to permit easy creation with the aim of "manufacturing that easy to make" and "manufacturing in accord with the size of their own sense". This workshop will become a chance that how open design changes and the idea extends can be experienced.

Condition of participating
1,PC should be able to be brought.
2, the illustrator or inkscape should be able to be used.
3,It thinks about the design beforehand by the download of data by using pages.

The demonstration will introduce the participants to modern techniques of applying age-old materials to create emergent morphologies that transcend traditional processes. The workshop will focus on the process of spraying natural fiber to create a non-woven textile that can be used to produce anything from building components to ornamental artifacts.
In case of a full workshop participants will take part in the fabrication process. After introducing them to the process, each participant will be able to fabricate their own object. The possibilities can range from something similar to a lampshade, a piece of clothing, or whatever they see fit.
Participants will also be provided with their own set of blueprints of the spray tool so that they are capable of further developing the process on their own.

This workshop is based on the work of: Jean Akanish, Alexander Dolan, Jin Shihui, and Ali yerdel - Stigmergic Fibers conducted for the Digital Tectonics studio at IAAC 2012-2013.

Mediodesign is a design studio focused on design and production of furniture, objects and specials.
Mediodesign specializes in design consultancy for Computer Aided Manufacturing (CADCAM) and emerging technologies to Barcelona’s architectural and design community.

The studio produces limited editions of furniture and accessories which have a foundation in logic and rationality but invariably contain a witty twist or surprising detail.

Mediodesign is an Authorized RhinoFabStudio™ and Rhino Training Centre for Europe.

"The Poppy project (http://www.poppy-project.org) aims at building an Open-source humanoid platform based on robust, flexible, easy-to-use and reproduce hardware and software. In particular, the use of 3D printing and rapid prototyping technologies is a central aspect of this project, and makes it easy and fast not only the reproduction, but also the development of morphological variants.
Poppy responds first to the scientific objective to study the role of morphol- ogy in cognitive development, in particular for motor control and human-robot interaction. It appears today that a suitable design of a robot morphology can greatly simplify control problems, increase robustness, and open new modes of interaction with the physical and social world. Thus Poppy aims to enable and simplify the experimentation, the reproduction and the modification of the mor- phology in research laboratories. It also allows collaborative working, sharing and replication of the results on these issues between laboratories. The ambition is to become a reference platform for benchmarking and dissemination of scientific results.
Thanks to its properties, this platform also meets a growing societal need: education and training in technology combining computer science, electronics
and mechanics, as well as a training tool to the emergent revolutionary 3D printing process. With its openness, its design and its rather lower cost, Poppy provides an object and a unique context for experimentation and learning of these technologies in a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach. Several experiences with Poppy in colleges, high schools, Science museums and Fablabs in France and abroad are already underway and will be discussed in the incoming sections."

Robotic Race:
An exciting robotics competition in which the winning team will get prize!
In the first round, teams will compete against the clock in an obstacle course, controlling the robots from a computer.

Then they’ll learn the basics of programming with LEGO software, and they will program their robots in order to solve several missions (slalom, building demolition, lever activation, etc.)
Finally, they’ll design and build an accessory to complete a special mission in which the robot must perform a complex task.

It is highly recommended to come up with an own laptop in order to fully enjoy the workshop.

Co-Hybridization Workshop: Co-Creation Between People to Intermix People/Data/Objects
Incubio

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11:00 - 14:00
Sat, 5 Jul

We are in a moment where technology converges with opportunities and people. People have unresolved needs and with the arrival of new technologies and the changing rhythm of society, these needs have transformed. Data can help us to learn, connect and provide solutions for these needs and to solve small everyday problems. The rising generation of objects connected to the internet puts us in a future where we will be able to obtain data to transform it into something of value. From now on we must face the challenge of integrating people/data/objects with responsibility and respect.

In this workshop we will co-create together to tackle these challenges and to provide solutions.

With the help of Domothings, a startup specialized in the Internet of Things, we will co-create together to tackle these challenges and to provide tangible solutions.

Talk:
Lab on a Chip
Ruben Timmers and Karin van Beurden

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11:00 - 11:30
Sat, 5 Jul

Microfluidics and Lab on a chip technology are introduced in high school curriculum in The Netherlands. A team of teachers, technicians and scientists developed an educational Lab on a Chip kit. The kit uses commercial, and partly custom made, glass chips.

Current research is focused on low-cost substitutions for the glass chips, for educational use, using rapid-prototyping techniques.

The first prototypes and procedures have successfully been developed and tested to demonstrate laminar flow.

We developed in collaboration with Morgen Architekten Berlin - a Project that shows perfectly the workflow from digital design, through prototyping to the real implementation in urban space in 1:1 scale. We are talking about a Sculpture - with the functionality of an extraordinary entrance Situation for the refurnished modernist building- by August Endell- a former Dadaist Artist and Architect in the 20ies in Germany - now to be used as Autographhotel by for the Mariottgroup. The Sculpture is a complex geometry that seeks to combine the Modernist idea of the last century with a contemporary language of our Age, applying digital techniques at all stages of design, production and parametric adaptation, till the final setup in Steinplatz Berlin.

e-NABLE is a global network of 3D printing volunteers who design, fabricate, and deliver free or low-cost 3D-printed prosthetics to children and adults with missing hands and fingers. In this workshop we'll explain how the organization works, describe the software we are developing to facilitate the process of customization, and demonstrate customization, fabrication, and fitting. We will also enroll participants in our community, and describe ongoing research and development projects, and invite them to participate.

Cost: 25 € to print a prosthetic hand

Free to participate.

12:30

Talk:
Paolo Cascone
The African Fabbers project

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12:30 - 13:00
Sat, 5 Jul

African Fabbers is a social innovation and non-profit project promoted by Urban FabLab. The project is based on the idea of bridging the African and the European makers communities through workshops, collaborative projects, talks etc.

African Fabbers has been selected to participate to both Marrakech and Dakar Biennale 2014. The project, curated by Paolo Cascone with Urban FabLab and Maria Giovanna Mancini, develops a temporary and itinerant fab lab putting emphasis on the open source hardware approach for sustainable technologies and urban ecologies. Therefore our Lab organizes free workshops dedicated to African and European makers, students and artisans selected by the local cultural institutions and by an open public call. The workshops are developed in order to share an opportunity to creative clusters from different continents and backgrounds to meet up and share knowledge, to investigate the interaction between African material systems and computer aided design technologies.

The talk aims to show how digital fabrication is modifying and implementing architectural design processes nowadays, through a graphic presentation which displays projects that are carried out in Fab Lab CEU, the Digital Fabrication Laboratory of CEU San Pablo University. The objective is not focused on the exhibition of projects that students develop in classes, but in the explanation of the processes that are conducted in the Fab Lab, allowing students to improve or implement their architectural designs thanks to the use of the digital culture (new technologies or advanced technological languages).

In addition, as an open space, we will show how the Fab Lab offers students of different degrees of the university (Architecture, Telecommunications and Computer Science) a possibility to work together on the same project. We have also established links with research laboratories of the university, with whom we collaborate in the production of prototypes. This open-minded way has led, moreover, to collaborate with other academic institutions in the development of common projects, helping us to grow and improve our work processes, such as the participation in the Fab Academy Program or the workshops that we have developed in collaboration with ETH Zurich, TU Kaiserslautern, Politecnico di Milano, L’Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, LÉcole Camondó or Makeni University in Sierra Leone.

SmartCitizen is one of the world biggest environmental monitoring community. On this workshop we will work on deploying Smart Citizen Kits on the different Fab10 venues. You will also learn also about how the sensors used and the overall technologies involving the project. Even more we will see how we can write our own visualizations in real time and see how data change accordingly. Join the workshop and help us spread the Smart Citizen community!

The crash course to connect things to the Internet
Marc Pous - The Things

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13:00 - 16:00
Sat, 5 Jul

In this 3h workshop we will learn how to apply hacking and rapid prototyping techniques at the Internet of Things. We will hack together DIY platforms (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Electric Imp, etc.) to make things happen. We will make experimental things connected to Internet of Things platforms to push, get and visualize real-time data that will boost our devices to the next level. If you join this workshop, you will have a lot of fun learning from other attendees, prototype using new prototyping platforms and Internet of Things systems, and everything just in 3 hours.

13:30

Talk:
North American innovation centers and community bio labs
Aurélien Dailly and Quitterie Largeteau

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13:30 - 14:00
Sat, 5 Jul

Two intrepid photographer/journalists discuss their tour of North American innovation centers and community bio labs.

Have you ever seen a home inkjet printer prints circuit boards? Come see how rapid prototyping of electric circuits will happen, which comes from research by Yoshi Kawahara at the University of Tokyo. This workshop will get you inspired by playing with our circuit printer and conductive pens, and Circuit Stickers from Chibitronics

Things to do : From experimenting with plate and circuits can be created ( build ) various projects as a surveillance camera or a red light , and even robots that "walk " and are able to follow previously marked trails .

This workshop will introduce participants to the wonderful world of eTextiles and wearable electronics. There will be an introduction about eTextiles and how they will change our lives. A hand-on session to learn how to connect and use a textile sensor will follow. Each participant will receive a Textile sensors kit (included in the price of the workshop) and will sew a Textile Analog pressure sensor.
The workshop will be held in English and/or in Castellano.

This workshop is for creative stakeholders from the Architecture community, and ICT researchers and professionals as well as anyone interested in the synergy between Technology and Architecture. We will discuss the latest developments on the interface between ICT/Technology and Architecture, and discover/review exciting emerging future visions and scenarios. We will also attempt to output a taxonomy of both the type of architects that exist and the types of software and hardware used in their architectural practice both now and in the near future.

We are entering the age of Fab Cities, where digital fabrication, maker culture and open design will be reshaping industrial production and urban planning. But how do we bring local communities onboard this revolution, together with maker communities? Will citizens engage with open design and distributed manufacturing to produce sustainable products that reduce waste, and open source, replicable solutions to both local and global challenges ? Or will we see in the physical word, the same digital literacy gap that we see in the online world?

The aim of this workshop is to produce ideas and knowledge on how to really democratize the means of production, and make the Fab Cities concept a reality by bringing citizens onboard.

Italian Limes explores the modern notion of 'border' within the context of the most recent technological advancements for spatial representation and the massive consequences of climate change that hit the Alpine ecosystem over the last decades.
A network of GPS sensors placed on the Similaun glacier, which determines the border between Italy and Austria, transmit the collected data to a drawing machine in Venice Biennale.

The development of GPS systems, as well as the representation of the collected data in the Biennale, have been developed in cooperation with Fablab Turin.

An Arduino / Processing framework and some digital production instruments currently available in a FabLab allowed a little team to create working tools to survey and widespread data that are not usually available.

The project has been awarded with a Special Mention at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, selected among the 41 installations on display at Arsenale's Corderie until November 23rd, 2014.

Personalised memory book comes from a felt need for all the memories that we happen to share with friends and family even years after it has long passed. Highly animated conversations have inspired the maker spirit in us to model a sampler to help parents and children to co-create a personal book to inspire narrating, treasuring and storytelling of collective experience for a future date.

TiltMe is a nightlight DIY basic electronics kit with a twist. A CAD 2-D design, CAM lasercut cardboard, basic electronic components (modded led, battery pack, a handmade paperclip switch and a tilt sensor), hand tools and loads of fun and creativity! Participants make a Led nightlight that needs to be tilted to the side to turn on and off. The end product is highly hackable and personalised by selecting the tilt mode (to be on to the side or off to the side (landscape or portait mode), the "paper shade" can be hand drawn with black markers by the participants).

How 3D Printing can help to shoot digital content with you smart- and not smart-phones. Come and learn how to be creative and use the limitless potential of the 3D Printing world. Let your own imagination lead you to a place where you can build anything you need to respond quickly to your mobile filming needs.
The workshops will touch also on the basic of shooting with your own smart phones and for what purpose (web-series, interviews, guerrilla filming, etc.)

Talk:
Well Done MoMo
Tim Burke

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15:30 - 16:00
Sat, 5 Jul

MoMo, a Global Fab Award-winning initiative, attaches to infrastructure (e.g. water pumps, power lines) in the developing world and measures how well it is performing. It uses sensors to collect performance data and GSM to transmit the data using the mobile network. The hardware is modular, allowing it to support various communication channels (e.g. WiFi, Zigbee) or power sources (e.g. wall power, battery rechargeable by solar panel) with the same core components.

MicroFlo is an open source visual, data-flow based programming runtime for microcontrollers, including Arduino. It lets you build software that runs on the Arduino by connecting components as nodes in a graph, similar to tools like Pure Data. Ready-made components exists for many common tasks, and can new ones can be built with the normal Arduino language.

Vertical Farming System (V.F.S.) applies to the quite common “blind” facade of a typical hi-rise apartment building in Athens. It works as a modular system with elements of 50x50 cm building a metal structure akin to a scaffold. The system shows great transformative power, functionally and aesthetically, and it may work as a pilot-project self-replicating through the city’s neighborhoods. Depending on scale V.F.S. may be used to grow herbs or vegetables and at the same time turn the ugly grey facades into green oxygen-fueled sanctuaries to biodiversity, long lost in Athens. Since the metal scaffold forms the basis, residents’ groups working together can decide what and where to plant. Recycled or other available material that comes handy may be used to form pots that can be filled with soil and placed drawer-like in selected parts of the grid. The structure is accessed by ramps that apart from their obvious functional use define an architectural promenade by offering new sights and unexpected viewing points all over the city.

An example of a possible V.F.S. implementation on the terrace of an open-air theater on top of the VOX squat social centre in Exarhia, Athens, was presented at LAEMOS2014 in Havana, (2-5/3/2014).
Authors: Fotini Georgakopoulou, Melanie-Maria Siouti, architects

Smart Lighting, make an Arduino intelligent lamp! This basic workshop will introduce participants to Arduino's world : you'll learn to write a code, then with a board, a led and few sensor you'll build your interactive lamp.

In this workshop, we'll use hacked infrared cameras to assess plant health, then attach them to kites or balloons to monitor conditions from the perspective of a satellite. Learn how to make your own infrared camera, take false color images and conduct an aerial survey of a polluted site near your own home

The workshop will teach participants how to use simple hardware to connect everyday objects on the web and monitor their behaviour. Components of the open source EU-funded COMPOSE project will be used for storing sensor data and for doing remote actuations on objects and smartphone devices.
Tutors will make the workshop in Catalan/Spanish and English if needed.

We will use Spark Core devices (WiFi-enabled Arduinos) and Node-RED, a code-less graphical environment for creating IoT applications!”

Open City Prototyping
Xavier Leonard and Katie Rast

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17:00 - 19:00
Sat, 5 Jul

Open City Prototyping explores how design, art, technology and rapid prototyping can serve as tools for civic participation.

The Problem
Cities are changing quickly and conventional planning processes are unable to keep pace. Permitting costs and timelines make creative public projects costly and difficult to implement, creating a barrier for citizens to contribute to improving the city itself.

Our Solution
Open City complements these processes by connecting cities and citizens with rapidly prototyped projects that improve civic life. We start by bringing together artists, designers, technologists, and civic innovators to collaborate on new projects.

AT IAAC, please ask at reception for directions. The workshop will introduce participants to a newly developed system of mold-less fiber assemblage, using a combination of natural and conductive fibers. Participants will learn the characteristics of the material which will allow them to design and fabricate their own lightweight reactive structures. As this project is still in being researched participants will be encouraged to develop and propose uses for this new material through their structures.

This workshop will give participants the opportunity to understand the extent to which we are reaching the limits of the current linear economy, and explore the alternative of a circular economy - a framework for an economy that is regenerative by design, that could stimulate progress in innovation, business and education. Attendees will face the question the economy is changing: what do I need to know, experience and do?

This is a workshop for kids or adults with litle or without previous experience in programming in which they can understand and use thewww.icityproject.com and smartcitizen.me API by programming with snap! . This workshops wants to encourage "smart" citizens to become sensors and builers of their cities.
Requeriments: Computers with Internet connection and Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome installed.

Talk:
What is creativity and how to implement it in FabLab!
Nirman Dave

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18:00 - 18:30
Sat, 5 Jul

Young Nirman Dave runs his own company, and he has worked on many innovative projects-- such as converting a piece of paper into a multi-touch interface, making smart earbuds, and more!

18:30

Talk:
The kitchen becomes open
Alessandro Masserdotti

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18:30 - 19:00
Sat, 5 Jul

This talk explores 'kitchen becomes open,' a project by Valcucine, dotdotdot and Arduino. During the Milan Design Week 2014, Valcucine and dotdotdot, in partnership with Arduino, promoted a Call for Ideas directed to planners, designers, makers, developers and programmers working in the field of design, as well as students and enthusiasts. Everyone met to take part in a shared and collaborative project regarding Meccanica, a kitchen by Valcucine. During the 6 day workshop in Valcucine's store in Brera Milan, the designers worked in close contact with the company and were supported by skilled mentors to develop design suggestions and prototypes of new accessories, structures and interactive digital implementation in line with the mood and philosophy of Meccanica. All prototypes were made using the digital fabrication technologies available at the workshop and released under the Creative Commons BY - NC - SA 4.0 license.

The results of the workshop were exhibited during the Milan Design Week 2014 in the Brera Design District.

We would like to present the story of our 3 axis CNC milling machine (2x1,4 meters), that we found abandoned (and broken).
We have lots of video and photo documentation about that period.
Nowdays her became our best friend in the workshop and it works well and a lot.
We designed our own pcbs and we recycle some others (from an old video recorder) to make the electronic works.
Here you can see some of the pictures that we collect during those 3 months work http://we.tl/aR36NtLBFe

19:30

Talk:
Presentation of 1 year of Fablab in Rome
Stefano Varano

ShortTalk
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19:30 - 20:00
Sat, 5 Jul

Presentation of Fablab Roma Makers, activities, projects, and all the things we learn in this first year in Rome.

Sunday, July 6th

10:00

Makey Makey Music Lab
Vailets HAck Lab

Demo
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10:00 - 13:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Have you ever played Guitar Hero? It's cool, right? What will you think if I tell you can make whole game? From manufacturing wooden instruments, connecting electrical components, sound checks and of course the super-concert in front of the whole family and friends. Do not miss out!

3D-Seed
David Basseti

Demo
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10:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

David Bassetti is an expert in industrial design, with more then 20 years of experience developing new products and in the field of 3D printing.
3D-Seed designs and manufactures 3D printers with the aim of achieving the highest possible quality both in design and speed as well as reliability. At the same time, all attempts are made to maintain competitive prices.
The 3D printers are created with an aluminum structure that is easy to assemble and very durable. They come with a software license which, together with the printer, can be delivered anywhere in the world. The pieces are mainly printed using different types of materials in filament form.

MakerConvent is an informal space for learning, which provides an introduction to new digital tools for creation, prototyping and production. It main appeal is derived from the fact that it is located in the Convent de Sant Agustí Civic Center, and all of the activities are open to the general public and targeted to the neighborhood.
Category: Digital fabrication / Rapid prototyping
The Convent de Sant Agustí is a civic center with three central areas of focus: body and mind; new technologies and audiovisual media; and music. It main objective is
presenting new working, communication and production methods to neighborhood residents through classes, outreach, and applications in everyday life. In keeping with this development, the Convent de Sant Agustí remodeled one of its spaces in order to accommodate the Makerconvent project. The space is not only intended for learning techniques in design, electronics, mechanics, robotics, etc.; it will also be used for projects that create a link between digital artists and the surrounding neighborhood. The Makerspace offers a series of useful tools and professional consulting in the interest of collaborative design and idea development. It is a place for creating work with audiovisual
media, or robotics, with a cross-cutting philosophy based on the STEAM platform, building a community that is passionate about technology, dissemination and learning.
MakerConvent is an initiative in the framework of the European Formalab project, with the fundamental aim of developing creativity and innovation in new projects in the area
of digital culture and the local digital fabrication movement.

Ravensbourne is delighted to present the 1st Wearable Workshop for children.They will create an interactive T-shirt using littleBits kit and Bare conductive paint!

Cunicode
Bernat Cuni

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10:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Cunicode is a design studio and a brand of objects created using digital fabrication, created at the beginning of 2011 to identify new scenarios for creation, production and consumption based on digital fabrication, 3D printing and design. They work with SMEs, technology centers, academies and individuals to explore business opportunities in additive fabrication through design.
Bernat Cuni, founder and designer, explains that “when there is a new fabrication method, there also have to be new design methods. Traditionally, fabrication was a privilege reserved for the elite, who had the resources (money, tools, knowledge and power) to build factories and distribution channels. Today,” he says, “in part due to the evolution of digital fabrication, these barriers are disappearing so that a larger number of people will have access to the means for production, creating new object typologies that have been unknown to the mass market because they weren’t economically viable given traditional production models.”
Through Cunicode, Bernat Cuni researches the new aesthetic of additive fabrication, develops accessible design tools, creates and sells products by taking advantage of the global ecosystem of digital fabrication services.

Flone, is an open source platform than makes smartphones able to fly. One of the objectives is making accessible the airspace for hackers and makers using their already existing hardware.
In this workshop we will introduce flone and its short history. After that we’ll share how to build one from scratch: attendants will go through all steps of making a flone, from assembling and gluing the laser cutted airframe made in plywood to solder the electric skeleton or configure the Multiwii/Arduino flight control board.

Cost: 300€

FoodForm by Robots In Gastronomy
Luis E. Fraguada

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10:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Robots in Gastronomy is a research and design group focusing on the intersection of technology and gastronomy. The group includes Michelin Star Chefs, Industrial Designers, Interaction Designers, and High End Kitchen Equipment Distributors. The group’s research has culminated in the creation of the Food Form 1, a computer numerically controlled deposition robot capable of 3d printing edible materials.

Robots in Gastronomy began in 2010 while Chef Paco Morales commissioned new custom dinnerware for his upcoming season. The plates and cups were geometrically complex, and were designed through iteration; each design was tested with its food to ensure the experience was unique. Because of this, the designs were prototyped using 3d plastic printers. This prompted the chef to ask, ‘Why can’t we just print the food?’

This simple question caused the gravitation of several parties to form Robots in Gastronomy. Since then, the group has experimented with the concept of mass customization and how to provide that in different settings. The aim of the group is not to industrialize the kitchen, conversely, the aim is to provide tools of invention and innovation in the kitchen.

Following several years of prototyping extrusion systems, Robots in Gastronomy completed work on the first version of the Food Form line of robots called the Food Form 1. The machine allows for the 3d printing of edible materials onto a variety of cooking surfaces such as a frying pan, deep fryer, anti-griddle, algae bath, or even onto a plate. The machine can be customized to custom dimensions or applications and is meant for experimental chefs, catering companies, pastry studios, or molecular gastronomists.

Even beginners will be able to create a beautiful pair of leather slippers! Use a traditional Japanese design that is now open-source-- and join a community of slipper-makers around the world!

KULUSKA slipper is developed to permit easy creation with the aim of "manufacturing that easy to make" and "manufacturing in accord with the size of their own sense". This workshop will become a chance that how open design changes and the idea extends can be experienced.

Condition of participating
1,PC should be able to be brought.
2, the illustrator or inkscape should be able to be used.
3,It thinks about the design beforehand by the download of data by using pages.

COST: 40€

Labs 3D
Jorge Montoya

Demo
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10:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

LABS3D makes scale reproductions of real people. They recreate detailed replicas of actual people, using 3D printing.
They use scanning and 3D printing technology. “It’s a revolutionary way to capture a moment in your life. A
family portrait, a group of friends, a birth announcement or any kind of celebration: weddings, baptisms, communions.
The possibilities are endless,” they affirm in this new studio, located at carrer Ample 12, in the heart of Barcelona.
Using a scanning system, the details are captured with a high degree of precision. Once this stage is complete, the information is processed, the details are finalized and an exact digital image of the person is created. The next step is to transform the reality into an image through the use of 3D printing. And in a relatively short period of time, the person is immortalized in a figurine. The price varies according to the selected size and the person’s height.

This project is aimed to make interactive experience from the your website and social networks like Facebook & Twitter. Our major aim is to make low cost interactive surfaces and to bring the virtual status to real world environment.In this project, We have monitored the status of ‘likes’ and used it to indicate it in real time in the way a customer wants. So for example , when the user ‘likes’ a particular event, it is showed in real time on his website

My NodeJs cross-platform application allows easy and fast connection to print your Gcode ( STL under process) from any browser using as a host a RaspberryPI, UDOO or any PC connected to your 3D printer. This application allows to monitor the temperature, to manually control the xyz movements, to visualize the video in streaming or previsualize the Gcode...
I am currently working on it to adding more features.

OpenKnit
Gerard Rubio

Demo
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10:00 - 19:00
Sun, 6 Jul

OpenKnit is an open-source, low cost (under 550€), digital fabrication tool that affords the user the opportunity to create his own bespoke clothing from digital files. Starting from the raw material, the yarn, and straight to its end use, a sweater for example, in about an hour. Designing and producing clothes digitally and wearing them can now happen in the very same place, rewarding the user with the ability to make decisions regarding creativity and responsibility. http://openknit.org

Papertronics - Paper Electronics
Sohil Patel & Nirman Dave

Workshop
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10:00 - 14:30
Sun, 6 Jul

This workshop is about creating electronic circuits with paper! This workshop will teach participants how they can make their own electrical circuits by using just a paper and a pencil. All they have to do is draw the circuit! This will include creative things like making a music system using paper and pencil and creating your own games using a paper and a pencil! I am sure that this is going to be the most exiting workshop participants would ever attend!

It's a simply way to produce circuits.
Starts from a FR1 boards, with an iModela Roland cnc.
I explain a simply way to draw a circuits in Fritzing, and then export in SVG, then clean the file to draw the machine pattern with inkScape or Illustrator, and import into iModela Creator, the proprietary software. set some parameters and milling the blank board.

Vinyl cutters are for cutting vinyl, right? The clue is in the name. WRONG! It’s our fault, we should have called them ANY cutters.

This workshop lifts the lid on the true creative potential of one of our most underestimated technologies, and why it is an essential piece of equipment for all Fablabs.

You will learn the simple techniques required to produce multi-coloured adhesive signs and personalised T-shirts. And, as a stencil maker, you will see how patterns can be quickly created to apply rhinestones to bling your clothing and accessories. Maybe you fancy yourself as the next Banksy, then let the GX-24 make your paint stencils. Need to increase the production of your T-shirts to meet the growing demands from your adoring public? Make a mask and start screen printing!

You won’t believe how simple it is to produce functional circuit boards, or customised packaging. You can even enter the 3rd dimension and turn your GX-24 into a 3D printer, cutting slices for 3D modeling.

Every Fablab has a GX-24, let us show you how to get the most from it. Come on, Be Fab.

Stalactite 3D
Oriol Raventós

Demo
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10:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Stalactite 3D is a young start-up company founded in
Barcelona. The project was launched by Joan Raventós
nearly 3 years ago. His idea was to create high-performance
3D printers that would be easy to use, providing
high quality at an affordable price.
For Stalactite 3D, a large part of the design inspiration is
based on user needs and feedback from 3D printer users
all over the world.

Stalactite 102 is the first high-definition desktop stereolithography
3D printer created at the Stalactite 3D offices.
As a result of DLP technology and its operating system,
the machine provides excellent results, similar to the
major name brands, but at a lower price. It is a highly ergonomic
and easy-to-use which means that users do not
need specialized knowledge to calibrate the machine and
begin printing. The machine’s z-resolution (height) reaches
25 micrometers (0.025mm) and in the xy-plane it has two
easily-adjustable resolutions: 100 and 50 micrometers.
This level of technical quality allows for creating objects
that could be confused with pieces made with plastic
injection molding. Stalactite 102 has a printing area of 102,
4x76, 8 mm on the xy plane and a height of 180 mm (z-axis).
In addition, the printer can use up to 4 materials with
different properties.

TecnoRevolución (Fundació La Caixa)
Reactable Systems

Demo
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10:00 - 19:00
Sun, 6 Jul

The Reactable was conceived and developed since 2003 by a research team at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Sergi Jordà, Günter Geiger, Martin Kaltenbrunner and Marcos Alonso presented their creation for the first time in a public concert at the International Computer Music Conference 2005 in Barcelona. In 2009 the company Reactable Systems was founded to meet the demand and to further develop the instrument and its possibilities. http://www.reactable.com/

UIC
Alberto Estevez

Demo
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10:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

ESARQ-UIC offers a teaching method based on design
work at all scales and an integration of areas of knowledge,
which ensures training highly competitive professionals
with a multi-faceted, innovative, committed and
entrepreneurial profile, who are capable of taken on new
challenges. The students at ESARQ-UIC have access to
a complete carpentry workshop supervised by specialized
technicians, with a spacious area for hand work and
assembly, in addition to CAD/CAM production tools. The
workshop was opened in 2000, due to the creation of the
Genetic Architectures Research Group and the Biodigital
Architecture Master’s Degree. In the beginning, as the
first digital manufacturing workshop at a Spanish architecture
school or institution, it was equipped with a milling
machine (CNC-AXYZ) and a 3D printer (Thermojet),
later complemented with a CO2 laster cutter and two
more 3D printers (ZCorp and Felix-printer), using additive
layering and heated filament extrusion respectively, which
are all still functioning to date.
From the first year and through to the present, the main
objectives have to do with the application of new digital
technologies to the production of pieces on a scale of 1:1,
for direct installation on site, in real architectural designs,
beyond the creation of molds, models or mock-ups. While
the importance of the machines is definitive in the creation
of models, retrospectively the fabrication system
defines the morphology of the design.

Who's the audience?
Gill Wildman

Workshop
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10:00 - 13:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Are you ready with a product or service idea but don’t really know who it is for? How do you find out who your audience might be and what they want? How do you grow that audience for your product/service fast?

This practical workshop will take you from the starting point of trying to work out what your market is to deeply understanding it. We will explore what a market is, who they are, where they are, and what you need to do to be able to understand and connect with them.

It will help you establish a clear picture of who are you making this thing for, and how your business or social venture needs to connect with it.

Maximum 18 people, or we can talk about doing it at a larger scale depending on the kind of space available.

Aimed at FabLab participants, early stage startups and social entrepreneurs in and around Barcelona.

These workshops are designed for makers, designers and creatives who have just recently started up, or are at the point of doing so. It is one of the core Upstarter incubator workshops aimed at supporting makers and designers to become founders of their own companies. If you are ready to make the next step in doing your own thing, come and join us on these workshops. This is one of the Upstarter workshops we have been running in the US and the UK, and will have a Spanish translator working alongside the facilitator.
More about us here: http://www.upstarteincubator.comhttp://www.plotlondon.net

Industrial designer based at Barcelona has developed many open source products in close collaboration with the poblenou fab lab. He combines different technologies, as the cnc machining, laser cut and 3d printing, to produce hybrid objects. Some of his chair designs have been selected by the furniture company "Opendesk" at London (UK) to be released to the public through its global network of makers, and he also collaborates with shops at Barcelona for local manufacturing design furniture. https://www.behance.net/pachek

In this workshop will introduce you into this new technological revolution, offering specific tools to analyze and design your own IoT projects. Using IoT blueprint we will describe what elements constitute every IoT project. Participants will then engage in a process to sketch their very own connected devices!

In this workshop, students will learn about the embedded electronic devices in everyday appliances and what makes them think and make certain decisions when they detect pressing buttons, changing temperature or movement. Students will learn how to make their own simple machine or robot then program its brain to think and move.

The workshop will teach:
1- What is the Microcontroller Unit MCU.
2- what are the INPUTS of MCU.
3-What are the OUTPUTS of MCU.
4- How to control the flow of the program.
5- How to compile and download your program.
6- challenge yourself: at the end of the workshop we will have a challenge with specific task. The winners will get some gifts from the organizers :)

This activity demonstrates how easy it is to start a community network, and what can you do with it, for example: etherpad (collaborative text edition), owncloud server (share files, photos, calendar, etc.), wordpress site (blog server), shared access to internet, etc.

The use of mesh technology helps people without networking background to get in touch with and participate in the network of neighbors.

Let's find the arrangement only for you or your precious.
You can also put the message you like on the back of the brooch by laser cutter engraving.

(Designed by Yurina Kira)

PRICE: 15€
Please bring cash-- first come, first served. This workshop has no registration.

Talk:
NodeJS 3D printer
Esteban Gimenez

ShortTalk
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12:00 - 13:00
Sun, 6 Jul

My NodeJs cross-platform application allows easy and fast connection to print your Gcode (STL under process) from any browser using as a host a RaspberryPI, UDOO or any PC connected to your 3D printer. This application allows to monitor the temperature, to manually control the xyz movements, to visualize the video in streaming or previsualize the Gcode...
I am currently working on it to adding more features.

Almost everyone in the embedded community is familiar with the Arduino development environment. Creating the Arduino libraries for userspace could offer significant reduction in the development time of projects involving interfacing with external peripherals, with the added advantage of running other userspace applications side-by-side.

I am a peruvian coder and maker and I was the mentor for this project for the Google Summer of Code 2013. My students were Anuj Deshpande (India) and Parav Nagarsheth (India). My co-mentors David Anders (US), Matt Porter (US) and Andrew Bradford (US)

How does one reward the engineers and developers that put the hard work into designing new products if the instructions to replicate their work are freely available? Short discussion about open source hardware and the possibilities of creating profit sharing license agreements. We'll investigate case studies such as Sensorica, Squid Labs, Ithsmus Engineering to explore the possibilities for the future of such operations.

About Speaker/Organizer: Kachina Gosselin graduated with a degree in aerospace engineering from MIT but has chosen to commit herself to understanding how to engage engineers in projects with social impact. This has led her to get involved in the EWB and FabLab communities. She organizes events for engineers and designers for international development at TechShop SF, and is currently designing and implementing an online platform for remote (and open source) hardware collaboration.

SmartCitizen is one of the world biggest environmental monitoring community. On this workshop we will work on deploying Smart Citizen Kits on the different Fab10 venues. You will also learn also about how the sensors used and the overall technologies involving the project. Even more we will see how we can write our own visualizations in real time and see how data change accordingly. Join the workshop and help us spread the Smart Citizen community!

13:30

Talk:
e-NABLE: 3D-printed helping hands for the global village
eNABLE

ShortTalk
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13:30 - 14:00
Sun, 6 Jul

They are coming together to create, innovate, re-design and give a “Helping hand” to those that need it – whether it is helping to print parts for them, creating a completed device for them or simply helping to guide them as they build one themselves.
There are people around the Globe – 3d printing fingers and hands for children they will never meet, classes of high school students who are making hands for children in their local communities, a group of people that are risking their lives to get these devices onto people in 3rd World countries and new stories every day of parents working with their children to make a hand together.

Oblobot! is an educational do it yourself parametric platform that help parents and teachers introduce children to digital fabrication and simple electrical circuits! Join us! http://oblobots.oblomobka.com/

This workshop will introduce participants to the wonderful world of eTextiles and wearable electronics. There will be an introduction about eTextiles and how they will change our lives. A hand-on session to learn how to connect and use a textile sensor will follow. Each participant will receive a Textile sensors kit (included in the price of the workshop) and will sew a Textile Analog pressure sensor.
The workshop will be held in English and/or in Castellano.

Wearable technology is the “next big thing” in tech industries. Analysts forecast a consistent growth and this sector is becoming appealing to many corporations. Aim of this chapter is to present the field of wearable technology and to highlight unexplored issues generated by the relation of such technologies with the domain of proprietary versus open source businesses.

Through the introduction of case studies and scenarios in the field of wearable technologies, the talk will explores some issues at stake when the age of the “frictionless sharing” reaches pervasively our bodies. Rather than depicting the picture of a future Gattaca like society, we, conversely, aim to introduce a reflection on how open hardware, open software and open data, if developed in a coordinated sustainable ecosystem, could become a platform for the creation of alternative businesses wheareas the user empowerment, self-sufficiency and inclusion in decision-making processes are added values brought by the body borne products.

14:30

Talk:
3D Printed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Jonatan Domènech i Arboleda

ShortTalk
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14:30 - 15:00
Sun, 6 Jul

This ETSEIAT aerospace vehicles degree final project is the study of the feasibility of the rapid manufacturing systems in the UAV applications. Reprap BCN 3D printer was the selected technology and the project develops a methodology for designing and manufacture a biodegradable PLA material UAV. Result is a new concept of fuselage in order to compete in weight with traditional tech and boom 100% 3D printing tech capabilities . Barcelona 3d printed UAV is 1500mm wingspan, 1000mm fuse length and only 845g OEW. Made in my home bathroom with CAD software under student license, 3D printer (740€) and 1 PLA filament coil (19€).

e-NABLE is a global network of 3D printing volunteers who design, fabricate, and deliver free or low-cost 3D-printed prosthetics to children and adults with missing hands and fingers. In this workshop we'll explain how the organization works, describe the software we are developing to facilitate the process of customization, and demonstrate customization, fabrication, and fitting. We will also enroll participants in our community, and describe ongoing research and development projects, and invite them to participate.

COST TO PRINT A HAND: 25€

FREE to participate.

15:00

Talk:
All About Slic3r
Alessandro Ranellucci

ShortTalk
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15:00 - 15:30
Sun, 6 Jul

Come learn about Slic3r from the inventor himself!

Slic3r is the tool you need to convert a digital 3D model into printing instructions for your 3D printer. It cuts the model into horizontal slices (layers), generates toolpaths to fill them and calculates the amount of material to be extruded.

The project was started in 2011 from scratch: the code and the algorithms are not based on any other previous work. Readability and maintainability of the code are among the design goals.

Talk:
LowHighTech and African Hub Cities
Sénamé Koffi

PanelTalk
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15:00 - 15:30
Sun, 6 Jul

At the beginning of all this; there is the fact that we identified a correspondence between the hacker ethic and African traditional societies values. LowHighTech concept is born to highlight this paradoxical closeness and make possible a new approach of technology; aimed at putting in the reach of all; including the poorest strata of society.

Lowhightech finds its application at the urban scale in “HubCité”, a sort of african "smart city" project mobilizing barcamps and fablabs... Presented initially as an utopia, it is a program of urban renewal in which the actors are people who themselves - can easily take ownership and availability of dedicated spaces through technology to- recover the power to positively transform the city. (http://www.lafricainedarchitecture.com/hubciteacute.html)

WoeLab has been established to serve this urban ambition but found a whole life outside of this first projection of the founder. Today, it is an unusual place, the only one in Africa; open to all, both small street vendor and engineer... and freely according to our Democracy Technology ethic ! (http://www.woelabo.com)

WoeLab is in fact a real neighborhood fablab, proximity incubator-accelerator for boosting both open native hardware technology projects and international approaches of digital solidarity. A single framework for emulation, where young Africans through collective intelligence and free mentoring, access to the inventors status; chief of project and recently Corporate Head. Indeed, since recent months, we also prototype an innovative business. This young startups’ incubation program have an immediate success because 3 of the 5 companies we have created have been retained by the Governement in the top 10 entrepreneurial projects "of the year in Togo.

But the most famous WoeLab’s project and the one that best embodies this LowHighTech philosophy is the W.Afate 3D printer in recycled materials. This is the first contribution of Africa to this 3D print technology and isn’t least with its qualities of ecology ; simplicity and economy.

personalised memory book comes from a felt need for all the memories that we happen to share with friends and family even years after it has long passed. Highly animated conversations have inspired the maker spirit in us to model a sampler to help parents and children to co-create a personal book to inspire narrating, treasuring and storytelling of collective experience for a future date.

Oblobot! is an educational do it yourself parametric platform that help parents and teachers introduce children to digital fabrication and simple electrical circuits! Join us! http://oblobots.oblomobka.com/

Upstarter Design Incubator
Sunday 6 July July 3-6pm 2014
How does the crafting of your story help you to attract people, resources and funding? What do you need to say to get people to fund you, or people to talk about you?

This practical workshop will take you through a range of methods to tell compelling stories about the company you are just about to set up, or the one you have just started. It will show you how to use everything you do and have to tell the right story of your future intentions, and enroll people in the process. Its not just an exercise in fiction, but a powerful means to be able to connect what you are, with what you intend to be.

Maximum 18 people, or we can talk about doing it at a larger scale depending on the kind of space available.

Aimed at FabLab participants, early stage startups and social entrepreneurs in and around Barcelona.

These workshops are designed for makers, designers and creatives who have just recently started up, or are at the point of doing so. It is one of the core Upstarter incubator workshops aimed at supporting makers and designers to become founders of their own companies. If you are ready to make the next step in doing your own thing, come and join us on these workshops. This is one of the Upstarter workshops we have been running in the US and the UK, and will have a Spanish translator working alongside the facilitator.
More about us here: http://www.upstarteincubator.comhttp://www.plotlondon.net

COST: 5€

15:30

Talk:
A true innovative educational model in action
Sergio Villarreal

ShortTalk
@
15:30 - 16:00
Sun, 6 Jul

The most important part of this great partnership between FabLab and SENAI is the clear possibility to create and establish a global innovative project that can be applied in the whole country.

Talk:
Cross Creation and Startups in the FabLab
Stijn De Mil

PanelTalk
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15:30 - 16:00
Sun, 6 Jul

This talk will discuss the potential that fab labs and media labs have for assisting in business creation, though facilitating co-creation between businesses, students, interdisciplinary experts, and many others by sharing expertise, infrastructure, and physical space.

Public Lab is an open source environmental monitoring community which collaboratively develops open hardware, software, and data to hold polluters accountable. Members from chapters around the world apply affordable, DIY techniques to measuring and reporting contamination. Learn about some of the "homebrew sensing" groups which make up the Public Lab network and see some of the techniques they've developed -- from oil fingerprinting with DIY spectrometers to water quality monitoring devices like the Riffle.

Reactive Fibrous Assemblages
Jean Akanish & Ali Yerdel & Jin Shihui

Workshop
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16:00 - 17:00
Sun, 6 Jul

AT IAAC, please ask at reception for directions. The workshop will introduce participants to a newly developed system of mold-less fiber assemblage, using a combination of natural and conductive fibers. Participants will learn the characteristics of the material which will allow them to design and fabricate their own lightweight reactive structures. As this project is still in being researched participants will be encouraged to develop and propose uses for this new material through their structures.

Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs
IAAC

Demo
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16:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs is a research center for self sufficient habitats, led by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC).
Situated in the Collserola park just outside of Barcelona, we will be open for working, walking, and making tours.

The site encompasses an international research center in a privileged natural environment that brings together international students, teachers and researchers from different disciplines in order to advance the development of self sufficiency, recover ancient knowledge, manage local resources and implement new technology to solve problems of our time, to promote the exchange of this knowledge worldwide through information networks; generate economy and progress and lead research for re-naturalisation of cities on XXI century.

This collection of laboratories, Food - Energy - Fabrication operates at the intersection of digital fabrication and self sufficient living habitats.
A collection of our projects will be exhibited in the Green Fab Lab and a number of activities will take place during the Demo, including:

- Beehive Milling and Assembly, with a discussion about the plight of Bees and Citizen Science.
- Preparation for the summer season in our food forest.
- Harvesting honey from the Open Source Beehives.
- Hacking ideas for the Mini Green Fab caravan in preparation for its Green Maker Tour.

16:30

Talk:
Maker Network
Alex Juby Vazhatharayil

ShortTalk
@
16:30 - 17:00
Sun, 6 Jul

A simple talk and demo of how a network of connected makers will amplify the maker movement.

do you know how to talk to machines? it's like being in a foreign country: you just have to know the right language. Everybody will see how to talk to a DIY plotter that will write on a sheet of paper, what you code on a PC.

Over the last year at fabLAB Asturias we've been developing designs and techniques for making cheap and easy to build RC airplanes and multicopters for our research in fabbable UAV's.
Using digital fabrication and cheap materials (foamboard, plywood...), you can make small-to-medium scale airplanes (1 to 2m wingspan) able to lift small payloads for photo and video recording, enviromental data gathering, art performances, etc.
The workshop will teach the design techniques we use to adapt real airfoils so they can be laser cutted, how to design and build different types of airplanes, and how to connect the electronics and test them.

Public Lab community members have used affordable, open source techniques to document pollution and environmental problems around the world, from the BP oil spill to coal tar in the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. In this workshop, we'll use hacked infrared cameras to assess plant health, then attach them to kites or balloons to monitor conditions from the perspective of a satellite. Learn how to make your own infrared camera, take false color images and conduct an aerial survey of a polluted site near your own home.

Desktop fabrication: Digital Chocolate
Giovanni Re - Roland

Workshop
@
17:00 - 19:00
Sun, 6 Jul

If you have a sweet tooth, or are looking to make a gift for that special person, this workshop is for you.
In just a few steps, you will be shown how to produce a customised box of chocolates – the box, the tray, and, most importantly, the chocolates. Every element personalised to your own design, unique, fun, simple.
Creating 3D data doesn’t have to be complicated. You will learn how familiar 2D designs programs can be used to generate the toolpaths for a desktop milling machine to produce the pattern for the chocolate, and how you can quickly convert the design into full 3D to create the model to vacuum form the tray.
Digital fabrication then makes way for the analogue process, making a silicone mould and pouring the chocolate.
For the box, you will see how you can reverse dimensions, turning 3D back into 2D and witness the creative potential of print and cut technology.
What you will learn in this workshop can also be applied to making biscuits, icing sugar, soaps, candles and many other amazing things. It’s time to Be Fab.

how is going to be the king of the sky? who can win all the ability and distance competitions? let's make together the paper airplane, test them with the automatic launchpads and improve the projects. then it's time ot make your ideas fly! build the most precise, the quicker or the one flying further away, to win the 3D printed prizes!

Talk:
Stool around the World
Yves Ebnöther

ShortTalk
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17:00 - 17:30
Sun, 6 Jul

The "Stool around the World"-Project is an ongoing research into global distributed fabrication, with a focus on material tolerances and configurability. We take a look at the many prototypes (and what can be learnt from them) and a short discussion of the inter-dependencies between the technical aspects of the project (open parametric file format), aesthetic qualities and ecological ideas (use of off-cut material).

Open City Prototyping explores how design, art, technology and rapid prototyping can serve as tools for civic participation.

The Problem
Cities are changing quickly and conventional planning processes are unable to keep pace. Permitting costs and timelines make creative public projects costly and difficult to implement, creating a barrier for citizens to contribute to improving the city itself.

Our Solution
Open City complements these processes by connecting cities and citizens with rapidly prototyped projects that improve civic life. We start by bringing together artists, designers, technologists, and civic innovators to collaborate on new projects. Dozens of prototypes are then exhibited where they can be tested in the real world by thousands of people. Then, we openly share how-to guides and code for every project through our Library so anyone can replicate the prototypes in their own city. Finally, our Program works directly with city agencies to identify the most promising projects and install them in the urban environment.

Talk:
The Secrets to Building a Maker Community in your City
Christina Hug

ShortTalk
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18:00 - 18:30
Sun, 6 Jul

Drawing on 1:1 interviews and surveys conducted with makerspace and FabLab managers in cities around the world, common patterns and best practices will be presented and dissected.
Key Takeaways include:
- Identifying community-building tactics that are most likely to have an impact when building a maker community from scratch.
- Gaining shared insights around common barriers to entry into the maker community and developing solutions to overcome them
- Inspiration for how to engage other organizations within the arts, tech, and design communities

Saturday, July 5th

Flone, is an open source platform than makes smartphones able to fly. One of the objectives is making accessible the airspace for hackers and makers using their already existing hardware.
In this workshop we will introduce flone and its short history. After that we’ll share how to build one from scratch: attendants will go through all steps of making a flone, from assembling and gluing the laser cutted airframe made in plywood to solder the electric skeleton or configure the Multiwii/Arduino flight control board.

In this workshop, participants will be introduced in the 3D food printer world. 3D food printers permit to print all types of real fresh foods, from savory to sweet, combining technology, food, art and design.

Instroniks.com is a project that tries to combine music and technology to build your own electronic instrument. While you create your instrument you will learn about electronics, electricity, programming, soldering, arduino code.

Bring your early idea for a startup of a social innovation or a new commercial business and give it a jumpstart! This is for any local maker or designer or innovator wanting to startup a new idea.

We'll explore your early stage idea, who its for and how you can get it to the next step. We'll show some tools for thinking about your business and methods to get to a clear vision and purpose. We’ll be using design methods and business prototyping to get your idea into a clearly. We’ll explore how the idea could be packaged, who might be the audience for the idea, and methods of getting the product or service to them.

You'll take your idea and turn it into a proposition to take to the next step.

Maximum 18 people, or we can talk about doing it at a larger scale depending on the kind of space available.

Aimed at FabLab participants, early stage startups and social entrepreneurs in and around Barcelona.

These workshops are designed for makers, designers and creatives who have just recently started up, or are at the point of doing so. It is one of the core Upstarter incubator workshops aimed at supporting makers and designers to become founders of their own companies. If you are ready to make the next step in doing your own thing, come and join us on these workshops. This is one of the Upstarter workshops we have been running in the US and the UK, and will have a Spanish translator working alongside the facilitator.
More about us here: http://www.upstarteincubator.comhttp://www.plotlondon.net

Even beginners will be able to create a beautiful pair of leather slippers! Use a traditional Japanese design that is now open-source-- and join a community of slipper-makers around the world!

KULUSKA slipper is developed to permit easy creation with the aim of "manufacturing that easy to make" and "manufacturing in accord with the size of their own sense". This workshop will become a chance that how open design changes and the idea extends can be experienced.

Condition of participating
1,PC should be able to be brought.
2, the illustrator or inkscape should be able to be used.
3,It thinks about the design beforehand by the download of data by using pages.

Robotic Race:
An exciting robotics competition in which the winning team will get prize!
In the first round, teams will compete against the clock in an obstacle course, controlling the robots from a computer.

Then they’ll learn the basics of programming with LEGO software, and they will program their robots in order to solve several missions (slalom, building demolition, lever activation, etc.)
Finally, they’ll design and build an accessory to complete a special mission in which the robot must perform a complex task.

It is highly recommended to come up with an own laptop in order to fully enjoy the workshop.

Co-Hybridization Workshop: Co-Creation Between People to Intermix People/Data/Objects
Incubio

Workshop
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11:00 - 14:00
Sat, 5 Jul

We are in a moment where technology converges with opportunities and people. People have unresolved needs and with the arrival of new technologies and the changing rhythm of society, these needs have transformed. Data can help us to learn, connect and provide solutions for these needs and to solve small everyday problems. The rising generation of objects connected to the internet puts us in a future where we will be able to obtain data to transform it into something of value. From now on we must face the challenge of integrating people/data/objects with responsibility and respect.

In this workshop we will co-create together to tackle these challenges and to provide solutions.

With the help of Domothings, a startup specialized in the Internet of Things, we will co-create together to tackle these challenges and to provide tangible solutions.

e-NABLE is a global network of 3D printing volunteers who design, fabricate, and deliver free or low-cost 3D-printed prosthetics to children and adults with missing hands and fingers. In this workshop we'll explain how the organization works, describe the software we are developing to facilitate the process of customization, and demonstrate customization, fabrication, and fitting. We will also enroll participants in our community, and describe ongoing research and development projects, and invite them to participate.

SmartCitizen is one of the world biggest environmental monitoring community. On this workshop we will work on deploying Smart Citizen Kits on the different Fab10 venues. You will also learn also about how the sensors used and the overall technologies involving the project. Even more we will see how we can write our own visualizations in real time and see how data change accordingly. Join the workshop and help us spread the Smart Citizen community!

The crash course to connect things to the Internet
Marc Pous - The Things

Workshop
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13:00 - 16:00
Sat, 5 Jul

In this 3h workshop we will learn how to apply hacking and rapid prototyping techniques at the Internet of Things. We will hack together DIY platforms (Arduino, Raspberry Pi, Electric Imp, etc.) to make things happen. We will make experimental things connected to Internet of Things platforms to push, get and visualize real-time data that will boost our devices to the next level. If you join this workshop, you will have a lot of fun learning from other attendees, prototype using new prototyping platforms and Internet of Things systems, and everything just in 3 hours.

Have you ever seen a home inkjet printer prints circuit boards? Come see how rapid prototyping of electric circuits will happen, which comes from research by Yoshi Kawahara at the University of Tokyo. This workshop will get you inspired by playing with our circuit printer and conductive pens, and Circuit Stickers from Chibitronics

Things to do : From experimenting with plate and circuits can be created ( build ) various projects as a surveillance camera or a red light , and even robots that "walk " and are able to follow previously marked trails .

This workshop will introduce participants to the wonderful world of eTextiles and wearable electronics. There will be an introduction about eTextiles and how they will change our lives. A hand-on session to learn how to connect and use a textile sensor will follow. Each participant will receive a Textile sensors kit (included in the price of the workshop) and will sew a Textile Analog pressure sensor.
The workshop will be held in English and/or in Castellano.

This workshop is for creative stakeholders from the Architecture community, and ICT researchers and professionals as well as anyone interested in the synergy between Technology and Architecture. We will discuss the latest developments on the interface between ICT/Technology and Architecture, and discover/review exciting emerging future visions and scenarios. We will also attempt to output a taxonomy of both the type of architects that exist and the types of software and hardware used in their architectural practice both now and in the near future.

We are entering the age of Fab Cities, where digital fabrication, maker culture and open design will be reshaping industrial production and urban planning. But how do we bring local communities onboard this revolution, together with maker communities? Will citizens engage with open design and distributed manufacturing to produce sustainable products that reduce waste, and open source, replicable solutions to both local and global challenges ? Or will we see in the physical word, the same digital literacy gap that we see in the online world?

The aim of this workshop is to produce ideas and knowledge on how to really democratize the means of production, and make the Fab Cities concept a reality by bringing citizens onboard.

Personalised memory book comes from a felt need for all the memories that we happen to share with friends and family even years after it has long passed. Highly animated conversations have inspired the maker spirit in us to model a sampler to help parents and children to co-create a personal book to inspire narrating, treasuring and storytelling of collective experience for a future date.

TiltMe is a nightlight DIY basic electronics kit with a twist. A CAD 2-D design, CAM lasercut cardboard, basic electronic components (modded led, battery pack, a handmade paperclip switch and a tilt sensor), hand tools and loads of fun and creativity! Participants make a Led nightlight that needs to be tilted to the side to turn on and off. The end product is highly hackable and personalised by selecting the tilt mode (to be on to the side or off to the side (landscape or portait mode), the "paper shade" can be hand drawn with black markers by the participants).

How 3D Printing can help to shoot digital content with you smart- and not smart-phones. Come and learn how to be creative and use the limitless potential of the 3D Printing world. Let your own imagination lead you to a place where you can build anything you need to respond quickly to your mobile filming needs.
The workshops will touch also on the basic of shooting with your own smart phones and for what purpose (web-series, interviews, guerrilla filming, etc.)

MicroFlo is an open source visual, data-flow based programming runtime for microcontrollers, including Arduino. It lets you build software that runs on the Arduino by connecting components as nodes in a graph, similar to tools like Pure Data. Ready-made components exists for many common tasks, and can new ones can be built with the normal Arduino language.

Smart Lighting, make an Arduino intelligent lamp! This basic workshop will introduce participants to Arduino's world : you'll learn to write a code, then with a board, a led and few sensor you'll build your interactive lamp.

In this workshop, we'll use hacked infrared cameras to assess plant health, then attach them to kites or balloons to monitor conditions from the perspective of a satellite. Learn how to make your own infrared camera, take false color images and conduct an aerial survey of a polluted site near your own home

The workshop will teach participants how to use simple hardware to connect everyday objects on the web and monitor their behaviour. Components of the open source EU-funded COMPOSE project will be used for storing sensor data and for doing remote actuations on objects and smartphone devices.
Tutors will make the workshop in Catalan/Spanish and English if needed.

We will use Spark Core devices (WiFi-enabled Arduinos) and Node-RED, a code-less graphical environment for creating IoT applications!”

Open City Prototyping
Xavier Leonard and Katie Rast

Workshop
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17:00 - 19:00
Sat, 5 Jul

Open City Prototyping explores how design, art, technology and rapid prototyping can serve as tools for civic participation.

The Problem
Cities are changing quickly and conventional planning processes are unable to keep pace. Permitting costs and timelines make creative public projects costly and difficult to implement, creating a barrier for citizens to contribute to improving the city itself.

Our Solution
Open City complements these processes by connecting cities and citizens with rapidly prototyped projects that improve civic life. We start by bringing together artists, designers, technologists, and civic innovators to collaborate on new projects.

AT IAAC, please ask at reception for directions. The workshop will introduce participants to a newly developed system of mold-less fiber assemblage, using a combination of natural and conductive fibers. Participants will learn the characteristics of the material which will allow them to design and fabricate their own lightweight reactive structures. As this project is still in being researched participants will be encouraged to develop and propose uses for this new material through their structures.

This workshop will give participants the opportunity to understand the extent to which we are reaching the limits of the current linear economy, and explore the alternative of a circular economy - a framework for an economy that is regenerative by design, that could stimulate progress in innovation, business and education. Attendees will face the question the economy is changing: what do I need to know, experience and do?

This is a workshop for kids or adults with litle or without previous experience in programming in which they can understand and use thewww.icityproject.com and smartcitizen.me API by programming with snap! . This workshops wants to encourage "smart" citizens to become sensors and builers of their cities.
Requeriments: Computers with Internet connection and Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome installed.

Ravensbourne is delighted to present the 1st Wearable Workshop for children.They will create an interactive T-shirt using littleBits kit and Bare conductive paint!

Flone
Alexandre Oliver - Aeracoop

Workshop
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10:00 - 13:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Flone, is an open source platform than makes smartphones able to fly. One of the objectives is making accessible the airspace for hackers and makers using their already existing hardware.
In this workshop we will introduce flone and its short history. After that we’ll share how to build one from scratch: attendants will go through all steps of making a flone, from assembling and gluing the laser cutted airframe made in plywood to solder the electric skeleton or configure the Multiwii/Arduino flight control board.

Even beginners will be able to create a beautiful pair of leather slippers! Use a traditional Japanese design that is now open-source-- and join a community of slipper-makers around the world!

KULUSKA slipper is developed to permit easy creation with the aim of "manufacturing that easy to make" and "manufacturing in accord with the size of their own sense". This workshop will become a chance that how open design changes and the idea extends can be experienced.

Condition of participating
1,PC should be able to be brought.
2, the illustrator or inkscape should be able to be used.
3,It thinks about the design beforehand by the download of data by using pages.

This project is aimed to make interactive experience from the your website and social networks like Facebook & Twitter. Our major aim is to make low cost interactive surfaces and to bring the virtual status to real world environment.In this project, We have monitored the status of ‘likes’ and used it to indicate it in real time in the way a customer wants. So for example , when the user ‘likes’ a particular event, it is showed in real time on his website

This workshop is about creating electronic circuits with paper! This workshop will teach participants how they can make their own electrical circuits by using just a paper and a pencil. All they have to do is draw the circuit! This will include creative things like making a music system using paper and pencil and creating your own games using a paper and a pencil! I am sure that this is going to be the most exiting workshop participants would ever attend!

Vinyl cutters are for cutting vinyl, right? The clue is in the name. WRONG! It’s our fault, we should have called them ANY cutters.

This workshop lifts the lid on the true creative potential of one of our most underestimated technologies, and why it is an essential piece of equipment for all Fablabs.

You will learn the simple techniques required to produce multi-coloured adhesive signs and personalised T-shirts. And, as a stencil maker, you will see how patterns can be quickly created to apply rhinestones to bling your clothing and accessories. Maybe you fancy yourself as the next Banksy, then let the GX-24 make your paint stencils. Need to increase the production of your T-shirts to meet the growing demands from your adoring public? Make a mask and start screen printing!

You won’t believe how simple it is to produce functional circuit boards, or customised packaging. You can even enter the 3rd dimension and turn your GX-24 into a 3D printer, cutting slices for 3D modeling.

Every Fablab has a GX-24, let us show you how to get the most from it. Come on, Be Fab.

Who's the audience?
Gill Wildman

Workshop
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10:00 - 13:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Are you ready with a product or service idea but don’t really know who it is for? How do you find out who your audience might be and what they want? How do you grow that audience for your product/service fast?

This practical workshop will take you from the starting point of trying to work out what your market is to deeply understanding it. We will explore what a market is, who they are, where they are, and what you need to do to be able to understand and connect with them.

It will help you establish a clear picture of who are you making this thing for, and how your business or social venture needs to connect with it.

Maximum 18 people, or we can talk about doing it at a larger scale depending on the kind of space available.

Aimed at FabLab participants, early stage startups and social entrepreneurs in and around Barcelona.

These workshops are designed for makers, designers and creatives who have just recently started up, or are at the point of doing so. It is one of the core Upstarter incubator workshops aimed at supporting makers and designers to become founders of their own companies. If you are ready to make the next step in doing your own thing, come and join us on these workshops. This is one of the Upstarter workshops we have been running in the US and the UK, and will have a Spanish translator working alongside the facilitator.
More about us here: http://www.upstarteincubator.comhttp://www.plotlondon.net

In this workshop will introduce you into this new technological revolution, offering specific tools to analyze and design your own IoT projects. Using IoT blueprint we will describe what elements constitute every IoT project. Participants will then engage in a process to sketch their very own connected devices!

In this workshop, students will learn about the embedded electronic devices in everyday appliances and what makes them think and make certain decisions when they detect pressing buttons, changing temperature or movement. Students will learn how to make their own simple machine or robot then program its brain to think and move.

The workshop will teach:
1- What is the Microcontroller Unit MCU.
2- what are the INPUTS of MCU.
3-What are the OUTPUTS of MCU.
4- How to control the flow of the program.
5- How to compile and download your program.
6- challenge yourself: at the end of the workshop we will have a challenge with specific task. The winners will get some gifts from the organizers :)

12:00

Color Block Brooch
Kotaro Iwaoka and Sonoka Sagara

Workshop
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12:00 - 14:00
Sun, 6 Jul

You can make your own brooch by assembling colorful acrylic parts.

Let's find the arrangement only for you or your precious.
You can also put the message you like on the back of the brooch by laser cutter engraving.

(Designed by Yurina Kira)

PRICE: 15€
Please bring cash-- first come, first served. This workshop has no registration.

SmartCitizen is one of the world biggest environmental monitoring community. On this workshop we will work on deploying Smart Citizen Kits on the different Fab10 venues. You will also learn also about how the sensors used and the overall technologies involving the project. Even more we will see how we can write our own visualizations in real time and see how data change accordingly. Join the workshop and help us spread the Smart Citizen community!

14:00

Oblobots
Sara Alvarellos and Jorge Medal.

Workshop
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14:00 - 15:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Bring Oblobots to live with conductive dough!

Oblobot! is an educational do it yourself parametric platform that help parents and teachers introduce children to digital fabrication and simple electrical circuits! Join us! http://oblobots.oblomobka.com/

This workshop will introduce participants to the wonderful world of eTextiles and wearable electronics. There will be an introduction about eTextiles and how they will change our lives. A hand-on session to learn how to connect and use a textile sensor will follow. Each participant will receive a Textile sensors kit (included in the price of the workshop) and will sew a Textile Analog pressure sensor.
The workshop will be held in English and/or in Castellano.

e-NABLE is a global network of 3D printing volunteers who design, fabricate, and deliver free or low-cost 3D-printed prosthetics to children and adults with missing hands and fingers. In this workshop we'll explain how the organization works, describe the software we are developing to facilitate the process of customization, and demonstrate customization, fabrication, and fitting. We will also enroll participants in our community, and describe ongoing research and development projects, and invite them to participate.

personalised memory book comes from a felt need for all the memories that we happen to share with friends and family even years after it has long passed. Highly animated conversations have inspired the maker spirit in us to model a sampler to help parents and children to co-create a personal book to inspire narrating, treasuring and storytelling of collective experience for a future date.

Oblobot! is an educational do it yourself parametric platform that help parents and teachers introduce children to digital fabrication and simple electrical circuits! Join us! http://oblobots.oblomobka.com/

Upstarter Design Incubator
Sunday 6 July July 3-6pm 2014
How does the crafting of your story help you to attract people, resources and funding? What do you need to say to get people to fund you, or people to talk about you?

This practical workshop will take you through a range of methods to tell compelling stories about the company you are just about to set up, or the one you have just started. It will show you how to use everything you do and have to tell the right story of your future intentions, and enroll people in the process. Its not just an exercise in fiction, but a powerful means to be able to connect what you are, with what you intend to be.

Maximum 18 people, or we can talk about doing it at a larger scale depending on the kind of space available.

Aimed at FabLab participants, early stage startups and social entrepreneurs in and around Barcelona.

These workshops are designed for makers, designers and creatives who have just recently started up, or are at the point of doing so. It is one of the core Upstarter incubator workshops aimed at supporting makers and designers to become founders of their own companies. If you are ready to make the next step in doing your own thing, come and join us on these workshops. This is one of the Upstarter workshops we have been running in the US and the UK, and will have a Spanish translator working alongside the facilitator.
More about us here: http://www.upstarteincubator.comhttp://www.plotlondon.net

With the team WoeLab, give a second chance to electronic waste! Come participate in the manufacturing of the first "Made In Africa" and with e-waste 3D printer.

Reactive Fibrous Assemblages
Jean Akanish & Ali Yerdel & Jin Shihui

Workshop
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16:00 - 17:00
Sun, 6 Jul

AT IAAC, please ask at reception for directions. The workshop will introduce participants to a newly developed system of mold-less fiber assemblage, using a combination of natural and conductive fibers. Participants will learn the characteristics of the material which will allow them to design and fabricate their own lightweight reactive structures. As this project is still in being researched participants will be encouraged to develop and propose uses for this new material through their structures.

do you know how to talk to machines? it's like being in a foreign country: you just have to know the right language. Everybody will see how to talk to a DIY plotter that will write on a sheet of paper, what you code on a PC.

Over the last year at fabLAB Asturias we've been developing designs and techniques for making cheap and easy to build RC airplanes and multicopters for our research in fabbable UAV's.
Using digital fabrication and cheap materials (foamboard, plywood...), you can make small-to-medium scale airplanes (1 to 2m wingspan) able to lift small payloads for photo and video recording, enviromental data gathering, art performances, etc.
The workshop will teach the design techniques we use to adapt real airfoils so they can be laser cutted, how to design and build different types of airplanes, and how to connect the electronics and test them.

Public Lab community members have used affordable, open source techniques to document pollution and environmental problems around the world, from the BP oil spill to coal tar in the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn. In this workshop, we'll use hacked infrared cameras to assess plant health, then attach them to kites or balloons to monitor conditions from the perspective of a satellite. Learn how to make your own infrared camera, take false color images and conduct an aerial survey of a polluted site near your own home.

Desktop fabrication: Digital Chocolate
Giovanni Re - Roland

Workshop
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17:00 - 19:00
Sun, 6 Jul

If you have a sweet tooth, or are looking to make a gift for that special person, this workshop is for you.
In just a few steps, you will be shown how to produce a customised box of chocolates – the box, the tray, and, most importantly, the chocolates. Every element personalised to your own design, unique, fun, simple.
Creating 3D data doesn’t have to be complicated. You will learn how familiar 2D designs programs can be used to generate the toolpaths for a desktop milling machine to produce the pattern for the chocolate, and how you can quickly convert the design into full 3D to create the model to vacuum form the tray.
Digital fabrication then makes way for the analogue process, making a silicone mould and pouring the chocolate.
For the box, you will see how you can reverse dimensions, turning 3D back into 2D and witness the creative potential of print and cut technology.
What you will learn in this workshop can also be applied to making biscuits, icing sugar, soaps, candles and many other amazing things. It’s time to Be Fab.

how is going to be the king of the sky? who can win all the ability and distance competitions? let's make together the paper airplane, test them with the automatic launchpads and improve the projects. then it's time ot make your ideas fly! build the most precise, the quicker or the one flying further away, to win the 3D printed prizes!

he project is a practical and effective solution for providing sustained access to safe water. The system use biosand filters, chlorination and safe storage which are identified as the most effective according to our research and having the greatest potential to become widely used in developing countries. The goal of our system is to empower people without access to clean water to improve
water quality by treating it and storing it in the home.

The key features of our system are as follows:
- Produce sufficient quantities of clean water to meet daily needs
- Effective for treating different water sources and quality levels
- Low cost, accessible and affordable replacement DIY units and DIY parts

The design collaborative Susana Karrasch (soyous.org) and Claudia Dressler (morgen architects)
realized a Project in Berlin that show perfectly the workflow from digital design,
through prototyping to the real implementation in urban space in 1:1 scale.

We are talking about a Sculpture, a canopy with the functionality of an extraordinary entrance situation
for the refurnished modernist building created by the Dadaist Artist and Architect August Endell in 1913.
The Sculpture is a complex geometry that seeks to combine the Modernist idea of the last century with a contemporary interpretation
to 2013 - exactly 100 years later, applying digital techniques at all stages of design, production and parametric adaptation,
until the final setup at the Autograph Hotel am Steinplatz by Marriott.

The fundamental idea of the final shape is derived from the decorative and geometric elements and design language
of the original expressionistic building. The challenge of the form finding process was to
extract the stylistic logic and combine these into a comprehensive essence through the digital design
and manufacturing process.

ETSEIB Motorsport is a team made of students from
the Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de
Barcelona. The aim of the team is to design and build a
single-seater to take part in the Formula Student with
other universities of the world. Since 2007 they have
launched a car every year: 4 combustion engines (CAT01,
CAT02, CAT03 and CAT04) and 2 electric cars (CAT05e
and CAT06e).
This season ETSEIB Motorsport will participate in Formula
Student with its 7th prototype, the CAT07e, which
is the 3rd electric vehicle designed at the UPC. The
CAT07e takes to the limit the main components of its

Hoffmann Innovation Iberica S.A. was founded in 1996
under the name Engineering & Prototyping S.A. In 2006,
the name was changed to Hofmann Innovation Ibérica
S.A. The company has become a leader in the automotive
sector, in a highly competitive and skilled industry, based
on its success in cultivating in-depth technical knowledge.
This combination of know-how and the state-of-the-art
machinery in its technology park has made Hofmann
Innovation Iberica S.A. a preeminent company in the area
of technology, which is constantly advancing in the creation
of sophisticated prototypes for the automobile industry,
based on the use of 3D printing technologies. The
perfect union of technological knowledge and the latest
generation machinery puts the company on the forefront.
The central Spanish headquarters are in Martorell, where
the company maintains a 600m2 workshops and 200m2
of office space. The staff is highly trained. The technical
personnel has been trained by the company itself as
well as by other companies in the group. Specific training
in our specialized subjects has been carried out in
specialized courses at national training centers such as
ASCAMM and at other centers abroad.
Hofmann Innovation Iberica S.A. has recently opened a
new work center in Martos, in the province of Jaen, with
a special focus on lighting for the automobile industry.
This work center is also dedicated to product development,
with the participation of a large team of designers.
The headquarters in Martorell and the Martos center
currently employ 23 highly-qualified professionals. The
founding partners in the company are Modelbau Robert
Hofmann GmbH and Werkzeugbau Siegfried Hofmann.
The German partners are from Lichtenfels and their work
focused on prototyping and fabricating injection molds.
The company is a member of the engineering technical
studies guild and most of their activity is associated with
the automobile, aviation and medical industries.

The demonstration will introduce the participants to modern techniques of applying age-old materials to create emergent morphologies that transcend traditional processes. The workshop will focus on the process of spraying natural fiber to create a non-woven textile that can be used to produce anything from building components to ornamental artifacts.
In case of a full workshop participants will take part in the fabrication process. After introducing them to the process, each participant will be able to fabricate their own object. The possibilities can range from something similar to a lampshade, a piece of clothing, or whatever they see fit.
Participants will also be provided with their own set of blueprints of the spray tool so that they are capable of further developing the process on their own.

This workshop is based on the work of: Jean Akanish, Alexander Dolan, Jin Shihui, and Ali yerdel - Stigmergic Fibers conducted for the Digital Tectonics studio at IAAC 2012-2013.

Mediodesign is a design studio focused on design and production of furniture, objects and specials.
Mediodesign specializes in design consultancy for Computer Aided Manufacturing (CADCAM) and emerging technologies to Barcelona’s architectural and design community.

The studio produces limited editions of furniture and accessories which have a foundation in logic and rationality but invariably contain a witty twist or surprising detail.

Mediodesign is an Authorized RhinoFabStudio™ and Rhino Training Centre for Europe.

www.mediodesign.com

Open Source Beehives
Jonathan Minchin

Demo
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10:00 - 20:00
Sat, 5 Jul

Hive assembly and operation, discussions on the plight of bees.
How can non intrusive sensing and citizen science intervene?
Beehive showcase and documentation + the value of honey.

"The Poppy project (http://www.poppy-project.org) aims at building an Open-source humanoid platform based on robust, flexible, easy-to-use and reproduce hardware and software. In particular, the use of 3D printing and rapid prototyping technologies is a central aspect of this project, and makes it easy and fast not only the reproduction, but also the development of morphological variants.
Poppy responds first to the scientific objective to study the role of morphol- ogy in cognitive development, in particular for motor control and human-robot interaction. It appears today that a suitable design of a robot morphology can greatly simplify control problems, increase robustness, and open new modes of interaction with the physical and social world. Thus Poppy aims to enable and simplify the experimentation, the reproduction and the modification of the mor- phology in research laboratories. It also allows collaborative working, sharing and replication of the results on these issues between laboratories. The ambition is to become a reference platform for benchmarking and dissemination of scientific results.
Thanks to its properties, this platform also meets a growing societal need: education and training in technology combining computer science, electronics
and mechanics, as well as a training tool to the emergent revolutionary 3D printing process. With its openness, its design and its rather lower cost, Poppy provides an object and a unique context for experimentation and learning of these technologies in a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) approach. Several experiences with Poppy in colleges, high schools, Science museums and Fablabs in France and abroad are already underway and will be discussed in the incoming sections."

Sunday, July 6th

10:00

Makey Makey Music Lab
Vailets HAck Lab

Demo
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10:00 - 13:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Have you ever played Guitar Hero? It's cool, right? What will you think if I tell you can make whole game? From manufacturing wooden instruments, connecting electrical components, sound checks and of course the super-concert in front of the whole family and friends. Do not miss out!

3D-Seed
David Basseti

Demo
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10:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

David Bassetti is an expert in industrial design, with more then 20 years of experience developing new products and in the field of 3D printing.
3D-Seed designs and manufactures 3D printers with the aim of achieving the highest possible quality both in design and speed as well as reliability. At the same time, all attempts are made to maintain competitive prices.
The 3D printers are created with an aluminum structure that is easy to assemble and very durable. They come with a software license which, together with the printer, can be delivered anywhere in the world. The pieces are mainly printed using different types of materials in filament form.

MakerConvent is an informal space for learning, which provides an introduction to new digital tools for creation, prototyping and production. It main appeal is derived from the fact that it is located in the Convent de Sant Agustí Civic Center, and all of the activities are open to the general public and targeted to the neighborhood.
Category: Digital fabrication / Rapid prototyping
The Convent de Sant Agustí is a civic center with three central areas of focus: body and mind; new technologies and audiovisual media; and music. It main objective is
presenting new working, communication and production methods to neighborhood residents through classes, outreach, and applications in everyday life. In keeping with this development, the Convent de Sant Agustí remodeled one of its spaces in order to accommodate the Makerconvent project. The space is not only intended for learning techniques in design, electronics, mechanics, robotics, etc.; it will also be used for projects that create a link between digital artists and the surrounding neighborhood. The Makerspace offers a series of useful tools and professional consulting in the interest of collaborative design and idea development. It is a place for creating work with audiovisual
media, or robotics, with a cross-cutting philosophy based on the STEAM platform, building a community that is passionate about technology, dissemination and learning.
MakerConvent is an initiative in the framework of the European Formalab project, with the fundamental aim of developing creativity and innovation in new projects in the area
of digital culture and the local digital fabrication movement.

Cunicode
Bernat Cuni

Demo
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10:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Cunicode is a design studio and a brand of objects created using digital fabrication, created at the beginning of 2011 to identify new scenarios for creation, production and consumption based on digital fabrication, 3D printing and design. They work with SMEs, technology centers, academies and individuals to explore business opportunities in additive fabrication through design.
Bernat Cuni, founder and designer, explains that “when there is a new fabrication method, there also have to be new design methods. Traditionally, fabrication was a privilege reserved for the elite, who had the resources (money, tools, knowledge and power) to build factories and distribution channels. Today,” he says, “in part due to the evolution of digital fabrication, these barriers are disappearing so that a larger number of people will have access to the means for production, creating new object typologies that have been unknown to the mass market because they weren’t economically viable given traditional production models.”
Through Cunicode, Bernat Cuni researches the new aesthetic of additive fabrication, develops accessible design tools, creates and sells products by taking advantage of the global ecosystem of digital fabrication services.

Robots in Gastronomy is a research and design group focusing on the intersection of technology and gastronomy. The group includes Michelin Star Chefs, Industrial Designers, Interaction Designers, and High End Kitchen Equipment Distributors. The group’s research has culminated in the creation of the Food Form 1, a computer numerically controlled deposition robot capable of 3d printing edible materials.

Robots in Gastronomy began in 2010 while Chef Paco Morales commissioned new custom dinnerware for his upcoming season. The plates and cups were geometrically complex, and were designed through iteration; each design was tested with its food to ensure the experience was unique. Because of this, the designs were prototyped using 3d plastic printers. This prompted the chef to ask, ‘Why can’t we just print the food?’

This simple question caused the gravitation of several parties to form Robots in Gastronomy. Since then, the group has experimented with the concept of mass customization and how to provide that in different settings. The aim of the group is not to industrialize the kitchen, conversely, the aim is to provide tools of invention and innovation in the kitchen.

Following several years of prototyping extrusion systems, Robots in Gastronomy completed work on the first version of the Food Form line of robots called the Food Form 1. The machine allows for the 3d printing of edible materials onto a variety of cooking surfaces such as a frying pan, deep fryer, anti-griddle, algae bath, or even onto a plate. The machine can be customized to custom dimensions or applications and is meant for experimental chefs, catering companies, pastry studios, or molecular gastronomists.

LABS3D makes scale reproductions of real people. They recreate detailed replicas of actual people, using 3D printing.
They use scanning and 3D printing technology. “It’s a revolutionary way to capture a moment in your life. A
family portrait, a group of friends, a birth announcement or any kind of celebration: weddings, baptisms, communions.
The possibilities are endless,” they affirm in this new studio, located at carrer Ample 12, in the heart of Barcelona.
Using a scanning system, the details are captured with a high degree of precision. Once this stage is complete, the information is processed, the details are finalized and an exact digital image of the person is created. The next step is to transform the reality into an image through the use of 3D printing. And in a relatively short period of time, the person is immortalized in a figurine. The price varies according to the selected size and the person’s height.

My NodeJs cross-platform application allows easy and fast connection to print your Gcode ( STL under process) from any browser using as a host a RaspberryPI, UDOO or any PC connected to your 3D printer. This application allows to monitor the temperature, to manually control the xyz movements, to visualize the video in streaming or previsualize the Gcode...
I am currently working on it to adding more features.

OpenKnit
Gerard Rubio

Demo
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10:00 - 19:00
Sun, 6 Jul

OpenKnit is an open-source, low cost (under 550€), digital fabrication tool that affords the user the opportunity to create his own bespoke clothing from digital files. Starting from the raw material, the yarn, and straight to its end use, a sweater for example, in about an hour. Designing and producing clothes digitally and wearing them can now happen in the very same place, rewarding the user with the ability to make decisions regarding creativity and responsibility. http://openknit.org

It's a simply way to produce circuits.
Starts from a FR1 boards, with an iModela Roland cnc.
I explain a simply way to draw a circuits in Fritzing, and then export in SVG, then clean the file to draw the machine pattern with inkScape or Illustrator, and import into iModela Creator, the proprietary software. set some parameters and milling the blank board.

Stalactite 3D is a young start-up company founded in
Barcelona. The project was launched by Joan Raventós
nearly 3 years ago. His idea was to create high-performance
3D printers that would be easy to use, providing
high quality at an affordable price.
For Stalactite 3D, a large part of the design inspiration is
based on user needs and feedback from 3D printer users
all over the world.

Stalactite 102 is the first high-definition desktop stereolithography
3D printer created at the Stalactite 3D offices.
As a result of DLP technology and its operating system,
the machine provides excellent results, similar to the
major name brands, but at a lower price. It is a highly ergonomic
and easy-to-use which means that users do not
need specialized knowledge to calibrate the machine and
begin printing. The machine’s z-resolution (height) reaches
25 micrometers (0.025mm) and in the xy-plane it has two
easily-adjustable resolutions: 100 and 50 micrometers.
This level of technical quality allows for creating objects
that could be confused with pieces made with plastic
injection molding. Stalactite 102 has a printing area of 102,
4x76, 8 mm on the xy plane and a height of 180 mm (z-axis).
In addition, the printer can use up to 4 materials with
different properties.

TecnoRevolución (Fundació La Caixa)
Reactable Systems

Demo
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10:00 - 19:00
Sun, 6 Jul

The Reactable was conceived and developed since 2003 by a research team at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. Sergi Jordà, Günter Geiger, Martin Kaltenbrunner and Marcos Alonso presented their creation for the first time in a public concert at the International Computer Music Conference 2005 in Barcelona. In 2009 the company Reactable Systems was founded to meet the demand and to further develop the instrument and its possibilities. http://www.reactable.com/

UIC
Alberto Estevez

Demo
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10:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

ESARQ-UIC offers a teaching method based on design
work at all scales and an integration of areas of knowledge,
which ensures training highly competitive professionals
with a multi-faceted, innovative, committed and
entrepreneurial profile, who are capable of taken on new
challenges. The students at ESARQ-UIC have access to
a complete carpentry workshop supervised by specialized
technicians, with a spacious area for hand work and
assembly, in addition to CAD/CAM production tools. The
workshop was opened in 2000, due to the creation of the
Genetic Architectures Research Group and the Biodigital
Architecture Master’s Degree. In the beginning, as the
first digital manufacturing workshop at a Spanish architecture
school or institution, it was equipped with a milling
machine (CNC-AXYZ) and a 3D printer (Thermojet),
later complemented with a CO2 laster cutter and two
more 3D printers (ZCorp and Felix-printer), using additive
layering and heated filament extrusion respectively, which
are all still functioning to date.
From the first year and through to the present, the main
objectives have to do with the application of new digital
technologies to the production of pieces on a scale of 1:1,
for direct installation on site, in real architectural designs,
beyond the creation of molds, models or mock-ups. While
the importance of the machines is definitive in the creation
of models, retrospectively the fabrication system
defines the morphology of the design.

Industrial designer based at Barcelona has developed many open source products in close collaboration with the poblenou fab lab. He combines different technologies, as the cnc machining, laser cut and 3d printing, to produce hybrid objects. Some of his chair designs have been selected by the furniture company "Opendesk" at London (UK) to be released to the public through its global network of makers, and he also collaborates with shops at Barcelona for local manufacturing design furniture. https://www.behance.net/pachek

16:00

Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs
IAAC

Demo
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16:00 - 20:00
Sun, 6 Jul

Valldaura Self Sufficient Labs is a research center for self sufficient habitats, led by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC).
Situated in the Collserola park just outside of Barcelona, we will be open for working, walking, and making tours.

The site encompasses an international research center in a privileged natural environment that brings together international students, teachers and researchers from different disciplines in order to advance the development of self sufficiency, recover ancient knowledge, manage local resources and implement new technology to solve problems of our time, to promote the exchange of this knowledge worldwide through information networks; generate economy and progress and lead research for re-naturalisation of cities on XXI century.

This collection of laboratories, Food - Energy - Fabrication operates at the intersection of digital fabrication and self sufficient living habitats.
A collection of our projects will be exhibited in the Green Fab Lab and a number of activities will take place during the Demo, including:

- Beehive Milling and Assembly, with a discussion about the plight of Bees and Citizen Science.
- Preparation for the summer season in our food forest.
- Harvesting honey from the Open Source Beehives.
- Hacking ideas for the Mini Green Fab caravan in preparation for its Green Maker Tour.

At the beginning of all this; there is the fact that we identified a correspondence between the hacker ethic and African traditional societies values. LowHighTech concept is born to highlight this paradoxical closeness and make possible a new approach of technology; aimed at putting in the reach of all; including the poorest strata of society.

Lowhightech finds its application at the urban scale in “HubCité”, a sort of african "smart city" project mobilizing barcamps and fablabs... Presented initially as an utopia, it is a program of urban renewal in which the actors are people who themselves - can easily take ownership and availability of dedicated spaces through technology to- recover the power to positively transform the city. (http://www.lafricainedarchitecture.com/hubciteacute.html)

WoeLab has been established to serve this urban ambition but found a whole life outside of this first projection of the founder. Today, it is an unusual place, the only one in Africa; open to all, both small street vendor and engineer... and freely according to our Democracy Technology ethic ! (http://www.woelabo.com)

WoeLab is in fact a real neighborhood fablab, proximity incubator-accelerator for boosting both open native hardware technology projects and international approaches of digital solidarity. A single framework for emulation, where young Africans through collective intelligence and free mentoring, access to the inventors status; chief of project and recently Corporate Head. Indeed, since recent months, we also prototype an innovative business. This young startups’ incubation program have an immediate success because 3 of the 5 companies we have created have been retained by the Governement in the top 10 entrepreneurial projects "of the year in Togo.

But the most famous WoeLab’s project and the one that best embodies this LowHighTech philosophy is the W.Afate 3D printer in recycled materials. This is the first contribution of Africa to this 3D print technology and isn’t least with its qualities of ecology ; simplicity and economy.

This talk will discuss the potential that fab labs and media labs have for assisting in business creation, though facilitating co-creation between businesses, students, interdisciplinary experts, and many others by sharing expertise, infrastructure, and physical space.

Saturday, July 5th

11:00

Talk:
Lab on a Chip
Ruben Timmers and Karin van Beurden

ShortTalk
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11:00 - 11:30
Sat, 5 Jul

Microfluidics and Lab on a chip technology are introduced in high school curriculum in The Netherlands. A team of teachers, technicians and scientists developed an educational Lab on a Chip kit. The kit uses commercial, and partly custom made, glass chips.

Current research is focused on low-cost substitutions for the glass chips, for educational use, using rapid-prototyping techniques.

The first prototypes and procedures have successfully been developed and tested to demonstrate laminar flow.

We developed in collaboration with Morgen Architekten Berlin - a Project that shows perfectly the workflow from digital design, through prototyping to the real implementation in urban space in 1:1 scale. We are talking about a Sculpture - with the functionality of an extraordinary entrance Situation for the refurnished modernist building- by August Endell- a former Dadaist Artist and Architect in the 20ies in Germany - now to be used as Autographhotel by for the Mariottgroup. The Sculpture is a complex geometry that seeks to combine the Modernist idea of the last century with a contemporary language of our Age, applying digital techniques at all stages of design, production and parametric adaptation, till the final setup in Steinplatz Berlin.

12:30

Talk:
Paolo Cascone
The African Fabbers project

ShortTalk
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12:30 - 13:00
Sat, 5 Jul

African Fabbers is a social innovation and non-profit project promoted by Urban FabLab. The project is based on the idea of bridging the African and the European makers communities through workshops, collaborative projects, talks etc.

African Fabbers has been selected to participate to both Marrakech and Dakar Biennale 2014. The project, curated by Paolo Cascone with Urban FabLab and Maria Giovanna Mancini, develops a temporary and itinerant fab lab putting emphasis on the open source hardware approach for sustainable technologies and urban ecologies. Therefore our Lab organizes free workshops dedicated to African and European makers, students and artisans selected by the local cultural institutions and by an open public call. The workshops are developed in order to share an opportunity to creative clusters from different continents and backgrounds to meet up and share knowledge, to investigate the interaction between African material systems and computer aided design technologies.

The talk aims to show how digital fabrication is modifying and implementing architectural design processes nowadays, through a graphic presentation which displays projects that are carried out in Fab Lab CEU, the Digital Fabrication Laboratory of CEU San Pablo University. The objective is not focused on the exhibition of projects that students develop in classes, but in the explanation of the processes that are conducted in the Fab Lab, allowing students to improve or implement their architectural designs thanks to the use of the digital culture (new technologies or advanced technological languages).

In addition, as an open space, we will show how the Fab Lab offers students of different degrees of the university (Architecture, Telecommunications and Computer Science) a possibility to work together on the same project. We have also established links with research laboratories of the university, with whom we collaborate in the production of prototypes. This open-minded way has led, moreover, to collaborate with other academic institutions in the development of common projects, helping us to grow and improve our work processes, such as the participation in the Fab Academy Program or the workshops that we have developed in collaboration with ETH Zurich, TU Kaiserslautern, Politecnico di Milano, L’Ecole Speciale d'Architecture, LÉcole Camondó or Makeni University in Sierra Leone.

13:30

Talk:
North American innovation centers and community bio labs
Aurélien Dailly and Quitterie Largeteau

ShortTalk
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13:30 - 14:00
Sat, 5 Jul

Two intrepid photographer/journalists discuss their tour of North American innovation centers and community bio labs.

Italian Limes explores the modern notion of 'border' within the context of the most recent technological advancements for spatial representation and the massive consequences of climate change that hit the Alpine ecosystem over the last decades.
A network of GPS sensors placed on the Similaun glacier, which determines the border between Italy and Austria, transmit the collected data to a drawing machine in Venice Biennale.

The development of GPS systems, as well as the representation of the collected data in the Biennale, have been developed in cooperation with Fablab Turin.

An Arduino / Processing framework and some digital production instruments currently available in a FabLab allowed a little team to create working tools to survey and widespread data that are not usually available.

The project has been awarded with a Special Mention at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, selected among the 41 installations on display at Arsenale's Corderie until November 23rd, 2014.

15:30

Talk:
Well Done MoMo
Tim Burke

ShortTalk
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15:30 - 16:00
Sat, 5 Jul

MoMo, a Global Fab Award-winning initiative, attaches to infrastructure (e.g. water pumps, power lines) in the developing world and measures how well it is performing. It uses sensors to collect performance data and GSM to transmit the data using the mobile network. The hardware is modular, allowing it to support various communication channels (e.g. WiFi, Zigbee) or power sources (e.g. wall power, battery rechargeable by solar panel) with the same core components.

Vertical Farming System (V.F.S.) applies to the quite common “blind” facade of a typical hi-rise apartment building in Athens. It works as a modular system with elements of 50x50 cm building a metal structure akin to a scaffold. The system shows great transformative power, functionally and aesthetically, and it may work as a pilot-project self-replicating through the city’s neighborhoods. Depending on scale V.F.S. may be used to grow herbs or vegetables and at the same time turn the ugly grey facades into green oxygen-fueled sanctuaries to biodiversity, long lost in Athens. Since the metal scaffold forms the basis, residents’ groups working together can decide what and where to plant. Recycled or other available material that comes handy may be used to form pots that can be filled with soil and placed drawer-like in selected parts of the grid. The structure is accessed by ramps that apart from their obvious functional use define an architectural promenade by offering new sights and unexpected viewing points all over the city.

An example of a possible V.F.S. implementation on the terrace of an open-air theater on top of the VOX squat social centre in Exarhia, Athens, was presented at LAEMOS2014 in Havana, (2-5/3/2014).
Authors: Fotini Georgakopoulou, Melanie-Maria Siouti, architects

Talk:
What is creativity and how to implement it in FabLab!
Nirman Dave

ShortTalk
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18:00 - 18:30
Sat, 5 Jul

Young Nirman Dave runs his own company, and he has worked on many innovative projects-- such as converting a piece of paper into a multi-touch interface, making smart earbuds, and more!

18:30

Talk:
The kitchen becomes open
Alessandro Masserdotti

ShortTalk
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18:30 - 19:00
Sat, 5 Jul

This talk explores 'kitchen becomes open,' a project by Valcucine, dotdotdot and Arduino. During the Milan Design Week 2014, Valcucine and dotdotdot, in partnership with Arduino, promoted a Call for Ideas directed to planners, designers, makers, developers and programmers working in the field of design, as well as students and enthusiasts. Everyone met to take part in a shared and collaborative project regarding Meccanica, a kitchen by Valcucine. During the 6 day workshop in Valcucine's store in Brera Milan, the designers worked in close contact with the company and were supported by skilled mentors to develop design suggestions and prototypes of new accessories, structures and interactive digital implementation in line with the mood and philosophy of Meccanica. All prototypes were made using the digital fabrication technologies available at the workshop and released under the Creative Commons BY - NC - SA 4.0 license.

The results of the workshop were exhibited during the Milan Design Week 2014 in the Brera Design District.

19:00

Talk:
How an old abandoned CNC became our best friend
Mio Cugino

ShortTalk
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19:00 - 19:30
Sat, 5 Jul

We would like to present the story of our 3 axis CNC milling machine (2x1,4 meters), that we found abandoned (and broken).
We have lots of video and photo documentation about that period.
Nowdays her became our best friend in the workshop and it works well and a lot.
We designed our own pcbs and we recycle some others (from an old video recorder) to make the electronic works.
Here you can see some of the pictures that we collect during those 3 months work http://we.tl/aR36NtLBFe

19:30

Talk:
Presentation of 1 year of Fablab in Rome
Stefano Varano

ShortTalk
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19:30 - 20:00
Sat, 5 Jul

Presentation of Fablab Roma Makers, activities, projects, and all the things we learn in this first year in Rome.

This activity demonstrates how easy it is to start a community network, and what can you do with it, for example: etherpad (collaborative text edition), owncloud server (share files, photos, calendar, etc.), wordpress site (blog server), shared access to internet, etc.

The use of mesh technology helps people without networking background to get in touch with and participate in the network of neighbors.

My NodeJs cross-platform application allows easy and fast connection to print your Gcode (STL under process) from any browser using as a host a RaspberryPI, UDOO or any PC connected to your 3D printer. This application allows to monitor the temperature, to manually control the xyz movements, to visualize the video in streaming or previsualize the Gcode...
I am currently working on it to adding more features.

Almost everyone in the embedded community is familiar with the Arduino development environment. Creating the Arduino libraries for userspace could offer significant reduction in the development time of projects involving interfacing with external peripherals, with the added advantage of running other userspace applications side-by-side.

I am a peruvian coder and maker and I was the mentor for this project for the Google Summer of Code 2013. My students were Anuj Deshpande (India) and Parav Nagarsheth (India). My co-mentors David Anders (US), Matt Porter (US) and Andrew Bradford (US)

How does one reward the engineers and developers that put the hard work into designing new products if the instructions to replicate their work are freely available? Short discussion about open source hardware and the possibilities of creating profit sharing license agreements. We'll investigate case studies such as Sensorica, Squid Labs, Ithsmus Engineering to explore the possibilities for the future of such operations.

About Speaker/Organizer: Kachina Gosselin graduated with a degree in aerospace engineering from MIT but has chosen to commit herself to understanding how to engage engineers in projects with social impact. This has led her to get involved in the EWB and FabLab communities. She organizes events for engineers and designers for international development at TechShop SF, and is currently designing and implementing an online platform for remote (and open source) hardware collaboration.

13:30

Talk:
e-NABLE: 3D-printed helping hands for the global village
eNABLE

ShortTalk
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13:30 - 14:00
Sun, 6 Jul

They are coming together to create, innovate, re-design and give a “Helping hand” to those that need it – whether it is helping to print parts for them, creating a completed device for them or simply helping to guide them as they build one themselves.
There are people around the Globe – 3d printing fingers and hands for children they will never meet, classes of high school students who are making hands for children in their local communities, a group of people that are risking their lives to get these devices onto people in 3rd World countries and new stories every day of parents working with their children to make a hand together.

14:00

Talk:
Wearables
Zoe Romano and Serena Cangiano

ShortTalk
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14:00 - 14:30
Sun, 6 Jul

Wearable technology is the “next big thing” in tech industries. Analysts forecast a consistent growth and this sector is becoming appealing to many corporations. Aim of this chapter is to present the field of wearable technology and to highlight unexplored issues generated by the relation of such technologies with the domain of proprietary versus open source businesses.

Through the introduction of case studies and scenarios in the field of wearable technologies, the talk will explores some issues at stake when the age of the “frictionless sharing” reaches pervasively our bodies. Rather than depicting the picture of a future Gattaca like society, we, conversely, aim to introduce a reflection on how open hardware, open software and open data, if developed in a coordinated sustainable ecosystem, could become a platform for the creation of alternative businesses wheareas the user empowerment, self-sufficiency and inclusion in decision-making processes are added values brought by the body borne products.

14:30

Talk:
3D Printed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Jonatan Domènech i Arboleda

ShortTalk
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14:30 - 15:00
Sun, 6 Jul

This ETSEIAT aerospace vehicles degree final project is the study of the feasibility of the rapid manufacturing systems in the UAV applications. Reprap BCN 3D printer was the selected technology and the project develops a methodology for designing and manufacture a biodegradable PLA material UAV. Result is a new concept of fuselage in order to compete in weight with traditional tech and boom 100% 3D printing tech capabilities . Barcelona 3d printed UAV is 1500mm wingspan, 1000mm fuse length and only 845g OEW. Made in my home bathroom with CAD software under student license, 3D printer (740€) and 1 PLA filament coil (19€).

15:00

Talk:
All About Slic3r
Alessandro Ranellucci

ShortTalk
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15:00 - 15:30
Sun, 6 Jul

Come learn about Slic3r from the inventor himself!

Slic3r is the tool you need to convert a digital 3D model into printing instructions for your 3D printer. It cuts the model into horizontal slices (layers), generates toolpaths to fill them and calculates the amount of material to be extruded.

The project was started in 2011 from scratch: the code and the algorithms are not based on any other previous work. Readability and maintainability of the code are among the design goals.

15:30

Talk:
A true innovative educational model in action
Sergio Villarreal

ShortTalk
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15:30 - 16:00
Sun, 6 Jul

The most important part of this great partnership between FabLab and SENAI is the clear possibility to create and establish a global innovative project that can be applied in the whole country.

Public Lab is an open source environmental monitoring community which collaboratively develops open hardware, software, and data to hold polluters accountable. Members from chapters around the world apply affordable, DIY techniques to measuring and reporting contamination. Learn about some of the "homebrew sensing" groups which make up the Public Lab network and see some of the techniques they've developed -- from oil fingerprinting with DIY spectrometers to water quality monitoring devices like the Riffle.

16:30

Talk:
Maker Network
Alex Juby Vazhatharayil

ShortTalk
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16:30 - 17:00
Sun, 6 Jul

A simple talk and demo of how a network of connected makers will amplify the maker movement.

17:00

Talk:
Stool around the World
Yves Ebnöther

ShortTalk
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17:00 - 17:30
Sun, 6 Jul

The "Stool around the World"-Project is an ongoing research into global distributed fabrication, with a focus on material tolerances and configurability. We take a look at the many prototypes (and what can be learnt from them) and a short discussion of the inter-dependencies between the technical aspects of the project (open parametric file format), aesthetic qualities and ecological ideas (use of off-cut material).

Open City Prototyping explores how design, art, technology and rapid prototyping can serve as tools for civic participation.

The Problem
Cities are changing quickly and conventional planning processes are unable to keep pace. Permitting costs and timelines make creative public projects costly and difficult to implement, creating a barrier for citizens to contribute to improving the city itself.

Our Solution
Open City complements these processes by connecting cities and citizens with rapidly prototyped projects that improve civic life. We start by bringing together artists, designers, technologists, and civic innovators to collaborate on new projects. Dozens of prototypes are then exhibited where they can be tested in the real world by thousands of people. Then, we openly share how-to guides and code for every project through our Library so anyone can replicate the prototypes in their own city. Finally, our Program works directly with city agencies to identify the most promising projects and install them in the urban environment.

Talk:
The Secrets to Building a Maker Community in your City
Christina Hug

ShortTalk
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18:00 - 18:30
Sun, 6 Jul

Drawing on 1:1 interviews and surveys conducted with makerspace and FabLab managers in cities around the world, common patterns and best practices will be presented and dissected.
Key Takeaways include:
- Identifying community-building tactics that are most likely to have an impact when building a maker community from scratch.
- Gaining shared insights around common barriers to entry into the maker community and developing solutions to overcome them
- Inspiration for how to engage other organizations within the arts, tech, and design communities